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Down the corridor on a top floor of an office skyscraper, a tough-looking man strides, radiating corporate menace. Inside his swank office, he detects danger from outside, and in a moment his colleague has been shot. Running toward the office window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears...
...tough place for trailblazers, as other local tourist attractions attest. Nearby are the graves of explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, who died of sickness and starvation in 1861 on their way back to Melbourne after crossing the continent from south to north. Geodynamics insists its prospects remain very much alive. Grove-White is so confident he's even come up with an advertising slogan for the pub: Have a cold beer from the hottest rocks. "It's got a nice ring to it," he says...
...indulgence [June 23]. This film is, at its core, about four women who are bent on pleasing themselves without accepting responsibility for the consequences. The same kind of selfishness is undermining our society. We want what we want, and we want it now. If that hurts someone else, well, tough. I hope the film's stars and producers will be donating their profits to help the poor and abused. Danny Lean, Brisbane, Queensland
Obama's campaign initially defended the placard but later declared the seal "a one-time thing for a one-time event." Whatever the original intent, it was a serious gaffe for an operation that has made miraculously few mistakes during a long, tough campaign. Political pros say the mistake is a reminder of how dumb even a smart campaign can be--reflecting a blindness to the danger that Obama can at times come off as too sure of himself...
...powerfully atmospheric writer--he is, after all, John Banville--and a champion noticer of details like a "flock of lacquered, dark brown birds" and the tanned ankles of his father-in-law. But watching him try to do what a mystery writer does shows you what's so tough about it. Good genre writers know how to express ideas and emotions through events--plot--rather than dialogue or evocative descriptions. Precious little happens in The Lemur other than Glass trading icy quips with his wife. If Benjamin Black is John Banville's guilty secret, he needs to find a much...