Lehane's story features the boyfriend-girlfriend private eye team of Patrick Kenzie and Angie Genarro.

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Mr. Lehane said the governor's gun-control efforts would play well with Democratic primary and general election voters.

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Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said the vice president learned of the story while flying from Chicago to a campaign event in El Paso, Texas.

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Like Lehane's "Mystic River, " it involves the abuse and abduction of a child (before he became a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with abused children).

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The movie tugs hard on that authenticity because Lehane's elaborate plotting works better on the page than on screen, where its cleverness inevitably feels a bit suspect.

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"I was so frightened because I thought she wasn't going to make it, " Heather Lehane told CNN affiliate Network 7 of her 10-year-old daughter, Charlotte, who was sickened by the beads.

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"The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want to say they can't have effective energy and clean air at the same time, " said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane.

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