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...this town because people think you run this town," Gabriel Byrne tells Albert Finney's gang-boss character in "Miller's Crossing." The same was true, in the end, for Chile's General Augusto Pinochet. While the mass torture and killing of opponents that accompanied his seizure of power in the coup of 1973 was very real, the immunity from prosecution he'd awarded himself upon stepping down in 1990 was sustained only by an illusion of power. And that illusion was finally shattered Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court stripped the former dictator of his immunity, opening...
...Pinochet still enjoys considerable loyalty in the Chilean high command, two of whose members have warned publicly that the military won't cooperate with an investigation of their former boss. But this no longer intimidates his opponents, for the simple reason that a military coup is no longer a sustainable option. The essential precondition for the last one, after all, was active support from Washington, which saw the elected leftist regime of Salvador Allende as a threat to its regional interests. But the U.S. is no longer in the business of sponsoring coups. And that means the Chilean military...
...Russia the Chicago-based character actor is nothing less than the new Lee Marvin. As "American" in the recently released Brother II--Russia's biggest domestically produced box-office hit this year (and sequel to the summer 1997 hit Brother)--Houston plays a corrupt ice hockey agent/Mob boss who embodies all the evils of the capitalist Red, White and Blue. "News to me," says Houston of his megahuge status in Murmansk. "I haven't seen the movie yet." Houston isn't even 100% sure his nefarious character dies onscreen, but he definitely won't be cruising to Moscow anytime soon...
...judge in New Brunswick, N.J., last week ordered Wal-Mart to pay more than $2 million to a transsexual ex-employee who claimed he was fired after his boss learned he was a man. Ricky Bourdouvales, undergoing a sex change, said he was able to do his job fine dressed as a woman until his boss noticed he had checked "male" on a form. Taking an employer to court over one's appearance has quite a history...
...what is "it," exactly? In the face of such a human toll, it behooves us to ask just what kind of omelet Secretary Albright and her boss are creating with this recipe...