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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesIt blew out the electricity. I donБЂ™t mean just his town house. I mean the entire block and a lot of Central Park too. Took us nearly an hour to get back on line.БЂ«Despite his injury, Capt. Rhyme was not active in disability rights organizations. He once told a reporter, БЂњIБЂ™m a white male who lives in New York City, is six feet tall, weighs 182 pounds, has dark hair, and is disabled. Those are all conditions that have, to a greater or lesser degree, affected my career as a criminalist. I donБЂ™t focus on any of them. My purpose in life is to find the truth behind crimes. Everything else is secondary. In other words, IБЂ™m a criminalist who, by the way, happens to be disabled.БЂ«Ironically, largely because of this attitude, Capt. Rhyme has been held out by many advocates as an example of the new disabled movement, in which individuals are given neither to self-pity nor to exploiting or obsessing over their condition. БЂњLincoln Rhyme stood for the proposition that the disabled are human beings first, with the same talents and passions-and shortcomings-as everyone else,БЂ«said Sonja Wente, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Center ...» |
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