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...small table in Eliot Square’s Cafe Paradiso Sunday afternoon, sixth-year doctoral student Lauren J. Willig is sipping a latte and marking up a thick sheaf of papers with red ink. But she’s not poring over the rushed contentions of a new batch of undergraduate midterms, or a draft of her dissertation on British history of the Tudor-Stuart period, or even a judicial opinion for her second year at Harvard Law School...
...scam didn't hack ChoicePoint's network, Lee hastens to point out, a little disingenuously. Nothing so elaborate was necessary. The perp armed himself with phony letterheads and ordered electronic files by fax at $150 a batch. After a number of successful attempts, a ChoicePoint employee finally got wise and alerted police. When cops nabbed Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, at a Copymat shop in Hollywood, he had five cell phones and three credit cards on him, each under different names. He has pleaded no contest to identity theft, but authorities say others must be involved, since the stolen data have been...
...Maryann Bird Food Fright BRITAIN A U.K. food scare involving the banned dye Sudan 1 - shown to be carcinogenic in rats - spread to 15 other, mostly European, countries. Britain issued an alert on Feb. 18 when Premier Foods reported that it found traces of Sudan 1 in a batch of chili powder in its Worcester Sauce. The alert led to the recall of more than 400 products. The other countries affected are importers of foodstuffs from Britain. Tarnished Temple GREECE Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid...
...that resulted in the deaths of some of his team. Now he is steeped in fear and failure; he has the fretful eyes of a dog awaiting its master's familiar kick. So he can't be surprised when two things go wrong in sleepy Precinct 13. First, a batch of criminals arrives, including assassin Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne). Then all hell breaks loose outside and tries to break in, presumably to spirit Bishop out of custody...
Closer runs counter to the numbing predictability of most current films: the inevitable plot points of revenge and uplift, the reduction of human beings to heroes and villains, the avoidance of complexity in sexual matters. If a batch of recent movies were to ask, "Are we sexier, more mature--better--than films of 30 years ago?", the brutal, truthful answer would...