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...books what "big studio" pictures have generally come to be in the world of movies: a manipulative, diluted heap of cliches. The even greater tragedy is that the Grisham-studio team has swept up many a prominent director in its platitudes. Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm), Alan Pakula (Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief), and Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, A Time to Kill) have fallen prey to the Grisham spell...
...think President Clinton is going to that game,? said Harkes upon hearing that the Iranians would get their first crack at the country they call ?Great Satan? since the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in 1979. U.S. Soccer Federation President Alan Rothenberg was more philosophical ? "Maybe we can have soccer diplomacy like we had ping-pong diplomacy with China," he said ? if not optimistic. "The only thing that can make it better is if FIFA designates an Iraqi referee," he added...
...victims' families say the recipes for murder in Hit Man are not worthy of First Amendment protection. "There is nothing good for society about this book," insists Rodney Alan Smolla, a law professor at the College of William and Mary, who argued their case. "People cannot openly traffic in information that has the sole purpose of assisting others to commit murder." Along with its grisly instructions, Smolla points out, Hit Man has such reprehensible details as a suggested price scale for contract killings: $75,000 to $100,000 for a county sheriff; $250,000 for a federal judge...
...have been successfully investing in the stock market for the past 20 years without relying on the Federal Reserve Board and its various chairmen, including Alan Greenspan [BUSINESS, Nov. 10]. I don't have an M.B.A., but here's my counsel...
WASHINGTON: The national economic indicators for the July-September quarter are in, and there's enough good news for everyone (except maybe Alan Greenspan). Economic growth, expected to dip below 3 percent, continues to hang tough at 3.3 percent...