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This month gave a beam of hope to those desperate for gender equality on screen. The two top films for the April 5-7 weekend were thrillers starring women: David Fincher's Panic Room, with Jodie Foster besieged by three burglars, and Carl Franklin's High Crimes, in which lawyer Ashley Judd defends her enigmatic husband in a high-stakes court-martial. This week in Murder by Numbers, Sandra Bullock plays a cop on a homicide investigation that points to two brilliant teenagers. And on Memorial Day weekend, Jennifer Lopez provides a Star Wars alternative with the spousal revenge drama...
CONVICTED. JAMES A. TRAFICANT JR., 60, flamboyant Ohio Congressman known for punctuating his raucous floor speeches with "Beam me up!"; of 10 federal charges, including bribery, racketeering, tax evasion and obstruction of justice; in Cleveland. The nine-term Democrat, who does not have a law degree, represented himself in court, clashed frequently with the judge and now faces up to 63 years in prison...
...blooded Americans, Traficant has a deep, abiding hatred of the Internal Revenue Service, which he often dubbed the “Internal Rectal Service” in his famous one-minutes speeches on the floor of the House. In those rants, Traficant would often plead “Beam me up, Mr. Speaker!” Regardless of his guilt, Congress will be weaker—and certainly duller—because of his absence...
Mallett: Well, it’s based on Einstein’s theory of relativity. That is the most important thing to know. The whole proposal comes down to a circulating beam of light that will twist time, which we think of as a straight line, into a loop. Imagine then that you can travel along this loop—or from the future to the past. My new work, my contribution, has been to show that this is possible through laser beams...
...What Beam misses, but what much of the media world is beginning to realize, is the power of meaningful blogs that post news and commentary without respect to deadlines, advertising or length. Prolific, influential bloggers now cover every topic imaginable, linking to articles they agree with, dissecting those they find offensive, and often breaking stories before the mainstream media does. In fact, the mainstream media regards blogs as sources now, because they leverage the power of thousands of people close to the news. And, because of technological reasons that are too long to explain here, when acting in unison, bloggers...