11.   The plot can get a bit slow, and as Waters tries to wrap up the sweeping melodrama, firm editing would have helped.

12.   The Ross-Emily plot does finally get a rest.

13.   The usual amnesia plot gets a mighty shot in the arm with the fine storytelling of Judith McNaught.

14.   But it works only slightly to disguise the fact that, somewhere along the way, the plot gets too confusing.

15.   Officials said the plot got only as far as the planning stage and they said there was no indication Padilla had access to nuclear materials.