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Weil "took a major dive" last summer and bruised her spine. Mello wears a jagged scar on his neck obtained recently when he skated through a clothes line in a nearby alley. Victor Luke, 28, sports, wounds on both elbows and knees in various stages of healing...
...drug wholesaler, tells him that Darryl, another of his lieutenants, is cheating and must be killed -- "got to be got." Rodney seems to be saying Strike should do the job, and Strike is no shooter. Then Strike hears that Darryl has been shot and that Strike's brother Victor, a straight-arrow who works two jobs and has never had a parking ticket, has confessed. Rocco Klein, a white detective who's more honest than most, decides that Victor's confession is phony and that Strike, whom we know to be innocent, did the killing...
...conventional cop opera, the puzzle -- Does Victor think he is protecting Strike, or did he somehow really shoot Darryl? -- would be the focus, and the detective would sort it out. Here, despite Rocco's efforts, nothing becomes clear, and Dempsy's new accumulations of refuse obscure last week's stains. Instead of a solution, Price leaves us with a sheaf of memorable sketches: Dempsy's citizens, peering at the streets from behind the broken panes of their lives. This is a superb reportorial novel, a fine job of writing and witnessing...
This litany became tiresome fast. Overnight our president went from Persian Gulf victor and pioneer of the New World Order to an out of touch goof with "no vision." Now things will change back. The recession is over, and Bush will once again become "a good guy," just in time for November...
Harvard's victory marks the fourth victor marksthe fourth time in the past 12 years that Harvardundergraduates have captured the national title...