Word: bonds
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...central characters. Thomas Capano, the father of four daughters who separated from his wife Kay in 1995, is an unlikely murder suspect. A former deputy attorney general and legal counsel to ex-Governor Michael Castle, he was most recently employed at a prominent law firm as head of its bond department. "Tom was very much the consummate inside guy," says Charlie Butler, also a former deputy attorney general. "He was always fixing things. He spent a long time making Castle look good...
...Governor's office that Fahey came to know the other T.C. in her life. Capano's bond work brought him there often, and during the summer of 1993 he and Fahey started having lunch together. But it was not until a search of Fahey's apartment uncovered letters from Capano, as well as a diary chronicling their ups and downs, that their affair was out in the open. In one of her last diary entries, on April 7, 1996, Fahey wrote, "I have finally brought closure to Tom Capano. What a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac...
...general, the ban on government-backed assassination is good policy. It is often ignorance and hubris that make a President fixate on getting rid of one irksome foreigner as a solution to deeply rooted problems. But a James Bond-style directive is not the only way a President can grant a license to kill. In 1986 Reagan bombed Libyan "terrorist-related targets" that happened to be places where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was often present. During the Gulf War, coalition forces attacked Saddam's palaces and bunkers. Now the Pentagon is ready with a new list of his hangouts...
This season carries heavy freight: six films from the directors of Best Picture Oscars (Allen, Brooks, Coppola, Costner, Eastwood, Spielberg). There will be work from Tarantino and Scorsese, sightings of Bond and Magoo. And finally, ladies and gentlemen, women and children, accountants and foreclosers, presenting the costliest film ever made: Titanic, James Cameron's $200 million resinking of the liner, with young lovers Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet onboard...
...posters are enough to make your heart sink: another "screwball comedy" with Bill Murray carrying the whole cast? Thankfully, Murray's latest is an altogether humorous and clever film alternately mocking conventions of the Cold War, James Bond espionage thrillers and the theater itself, along with more pratfalls than even Chevy Chase could dream of. Wallace (Bill Murray) drops in on his richer brother (Peter Gallagher) and, thinking he's doing participatory theater, quickly finds he is the "wrong man" in an espionage plot. The name of the game is irony and near-misses, as Murray keeps the audience laughing...