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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good psychological thriller, but what makes it exceptional is that it is also a remarkable time-machine voyage. Carr sets us down in New York City -- yes, there's the American Museum of Natural History right where it belongs, at 79th and Central Park West -- but the date is 1896, a year poised more delicately than most between past and future. Horses still pull cabs, but telephones are fairly common. New York is still a rowdy port city, but finance has replaced shipping as the principal source of its power. Not everything is in transition, though: the poor...
...intellectual autocrat of almost Sherlockian self-assurance, takes up the pursuit with a somewhat addlepated New York Times reporter named Moore; his pal Sara, a gun-packing early feminist with bumptious ambitions to be a police officer; and a pair of brothers named Isaacson, who are scientifically up-to-date detectives. From the dimmest of clues, this team deduces a shape in the fog: an intelligent, physically powerful, driven individual who was abused sexually as a child but raised in a strictly religious family. The hunt is on, with much clambering over rooftops, chasing about in cabs and calashes...
...received the loan. They tracked down the construction workers and determined that they charged only $67,000 for the repair -- and did the work a year after Hosokawa received the loan. Also, the paperwork Hosokawa released to prove he had repaid the loan appeared incomplete. One ledger included the date "Sept. 31," suggesting that it was a hurriedly conjured reconstruction. The inept handling of what at first appeared to be a minor, perhaps nonexistent transgression inspired some commentators to compare Hosokawa's problems to Bill Clinton's Whitewater saga. At his departure press conference, Hosokawa expressed the "sincere hope that...
...World Series championships since 1971. You see, the government shut down our last newspaper back then, and it's very difficult to obtain a copy of any newspapers unless one is willing to make the trek to a foreign embassy. Consequently, we're sometimes not completely up to date in our knowledge of current events...
...were scheduled to get hooked into the Widener Local Access Network (LAN) in December," said Library Assistant Steve Tanner. "But they keep pushing the date back...