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...restaurant shines with dishes such as the Antipasti Della Casa ($16) and the Assiette of Charcuterie ($18). The antipasti includes favorites like sweet and spicy sopressata, wine-cured prosciutto, and aged Parmesan, as well as less common additions like caponata, an Italian dish made with eggplant and raisins, and caper berries, which are eaten like olives. The charcuterie changes daily, according to the chef’s whim. Both are large enough to be shared by three or four people...
...that anything of the sort had taken place. In fact, the computers that control the movement of their satellites cannot be reached by public phone lines. By week's end the prosecutor's office was quietly backing away from its most startling assertion, but to most Americans, the satellite caper remained real, a dramatic reminder that for a bright youngster steeped in the secret arts of the computer age, anything is possible. Says Steven Levy, author of Hackers: "It's an immensely seductive myth, that a kid with a little computer can bring a powerful institution to its knees...
...form as the old order reemerges. The previews for the next episode—in which, as far as we can tell, the old crew of Ryan, Seth, Marissa, and Summer get locked in the mall and hilarious antics ensue—suggest a return to the crazy caper format of some of last season’s best episodes. And from there, who knows? Ryan and Marissa might reunite. Maybe Jimmy Cooper will even come back. The future is bright, but let’s not count our chickens yet?...
...Schwarzenegger's derriere pinned to the hot seat. As they see it, the Governor is just bowing to another set of special interests--hospital and insurance companies--that want to keep profits up by employing fewer nurses than California law requires. And so the nurses have produced a Hollywood caper of a showdown, putting unrelenting public pressure on Schwarzenegger to back down. In two protests, thousands of uniformed R.N.s stormed the steps of the capitol in Sacramento, shouting, "Arnold, Arnold, you can't hide--we can see your corporate side!" Nurses have buzzed his fund raisers with "Air Arnold" planes...
Count Barry Minkow as one of the more unlikely people ever to be a law-enforcement lecturer. A felon, he was busted in his early 20s by the FBI for engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history. His ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning scam, a mid-1980s securities caper, was worth $300 million before it went up in smoke. That rap landed him in a federal pen on a 25-year sentence. After serving seven years and four months, he got out in 1995 and, like the con man portrayed in the hit movie Catch...