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...years ago, Sinaltrainal filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Coke and two of its bottlers, Miami-based Panamerican Beverages and the American-owned Bebidas y Alimentos of Colombia for the murder of Gil and eight other Sinaltrainal members since the early ’90s. Last year that court found that the suit could continue against the bottling plants—but not Coke, because it does not own the plants. The decision is under appeal...
...presided over a 50% drop in homicides. But his techniques--putting more cops on the street, making individual officers more accountable for offenses in their neighborhoods and shortening the civilian-complaint process--have been controversial. The U.S. as a whole experienced steep drops in crime in the '90s. But even as cities across the nation hired more cops and jailed more young men, many academics disputed the idea that strong policing was the key to controlling crime. "It is still not clear what actually brings crime down," says Andrew Karmen, professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice...
...movies for half her life, though the movies hardly knew it. Australia, where she moved from England when she was 14, exported half its acting population to Hollywood (including Watts' buddy Nicole Kidman), while she was left to play in Aussie soaps. Moving to California in the mid-'90s didn't land Watts starring roles, unless you count Children of the Corn IV and some TV shows. One of these was dumped by the network, and released to theaters as a movie: Mulholland Dr. ABC's rejection of the David Lynch pilot proved to be Watts' promotion from the back...
...history of movies in the '90s--or in any room--Weinstein looms large. Biskind portrays Miramax's Brobdingnagian bully as a movie-loving maniac prone to physical violence, verbal attacks and financial shenanigans. Those sins are usually forgiven because his little studio in Manhattan's Tribeca has backed many of the best, most original flicks in recent memory, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Chicago, and he ponied up big time when MGM got cold feet about co-funding Cold Mountain...
Workers, however, managed to rig a gantry system to lower the five-ton units—described by Loesch as “late ’80s, early ’90s technology”—into the basement...