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...while the news is prime Bureau-bashing fodder (one computer reportedly contains classified documents on the now-closed Aldrich Ames case, and at least one gun was allegedly used in a robbery), FBI spokespeople appear relatively unruffled. It was the first time in ten years anyone had taken such a complete count of inventory, officials say, and many of the lost items may not be missing at all - they may have simply fallen through the record-keeping cracks...
...ride up the same trail on an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is to gun a Harley Fat Boy through the yoga class, whooping a great big belly laugh as you send leotarded pixies running for cover. In an hour, you can cover more terrain than you can walk in half a day. Two hours of wrestling your machine up the mountain and you're at 11,000 ft.--in a hallowed piece of Rocky Mountain forest where the air is light and the trees fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers...
...Flashdance was the first collaboration between Bruckheimer and Simpson, a former Paramount executive. Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun made them legends. Also legendary was Simpson's voracious appetite for drugs. "You knew it was coming," says Bruckheimer of his partner's 1996 overdose. "It's amazing that he lived as long as he did." Simpson had been considered the duo's creative force, but since his death, Bruckheimer has proved himself with low-budget winners and big-budget blockbusters. Last year he pulled in nearly $280 million at domestic theaters with Gone in Sixty Seconds, Coyote Ugly and Remember...
...author's storytelling ability?enriched by 10 years of research?propels the narrative from one blood-splattered incident to the next. As a young boy in the 1950s, Veerappan quickly learned he could earn respect by carrying a gun?and using it. He started his illicit career by killing elephants, bribing forestry and police officials to get past checkpoints protecting the dwindling herds in forest reserves, and selling the ivory for lucrative sums to traders. Utilizing the same techniques and connections, he recruited villagers to illegally fell sandalwood trees, which he then smuggled to northern Indian factories that produce...
Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine and rev out in rapid succession three of the strongest, most vibrant novels of his long career...