Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN gives her summer reading round-up (part one): "Neanderthal," by John Darton (Random House); "Firestorm," by Nevada Barr (Putnam); "The World at Night," by Alan Furst (Random House); "Ruined By Reading," by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Beacon).Movie critic JOHN POWERS reviews the new action thriller "The Rock," starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage. In the film, Cage and Connery team up to retake Alcatraz from a crazed general.
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