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...India: Gujarat Still Bleeds Thailand: Mysterious Cop Killings China: Is Beijing Irrelevant? Indonesia: Justice, Jakarta-style...
...worst wave of violence in decades. Police stations, train stations, hotels and government offices have all been bombed lately. Since January alone, 17 policemen have been murdered, and a bounty of 200,000 baht ($5,000) has been offered up by a shady Muslim group to encourage further cop killings. And nobody knows why. "It's creepy," says Sergeant Marohsae Moohanan of Sungai Padi Station near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Earlier this month, two members of his patrol were shot dead in an ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward...
...dozen romance novels, Evanovich switched to a crime series. "I decided that if I was going to stay with something for a long time, it would have to go back to New Jersey," she says. Not wanting to make her heroine, Stephanie Plum, a private eye or a cop, Evanovich made her a bounty hunter who tracks down suspects who jump bail. "It had such cachet, the Wild West thing," she says. "It was something with a lot of personal freedom to it. Then I had to find out what bounty hunters do." She also had to learn to shoot...
...winning recipe. Hard Eight carries on the antic tradition. Stephanie is stalked by a man in a bunny suit, a dead body shows up on her couch, and her car is blown up. She boomerangs randily between her two love interests, a bond enforcer named Ranger and a cop called Joe Morelli, written by Evanovich with the flair of a former romance writer. Evanovich also knows how to keep the laughs coming: "Fortunately, the flow on the Turnpike was steady. Good Jersey traffic. Bumper to bumper at 80 miles an hour...
...seemed determined to continue nominating the corpse of Dennis Franz for years after his death - for not sharing the wealth this year. Two new shows were nominated for best drama ("24" and "Six Feet Under"), and Michael Chiklis was nominated for his first year on FX's morally ambiguous cop drama (which should have gotten "Law & Order's" drama spot, but who are we kidding?). HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - a screamingly funny comedy of neuroses watched by approximately 15 people outside New York and LA, all of whom will write me angry e-mail for that remark - surprised everyone...