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...Woman of the Future does not look as though she could clean your clock. Yet as Max, the bioengineered heroine of Dark Angel, the dystopian sci-fi drama from Titanic's James Cameron, Jessica Alba sports skintight bodysuits and leather as, swaggering lean and feline (literally: Max has cat DNA), she dives through windows and KO's tough guys twice her size. Now, barefoot and swaddled in a massive black turtleneck and baggy jeans, it's as if she has been shrunk within her clothes...
What holds this bundle of dystopian dynamite together is Alba's presence. She has the grace and moves needed for all that running, rappelling and cat burgling, but with an emotional range unusual among action babes. As the morally conflicted Max, she impressively balances toughness with a sultry vulnerability--call it testostrogen--and turns within a blink from cool to coquettish as she playfully spanks a hit man she has just decked. ("Come on--you're not even trying...
Nailing spies is hard. To stand a chance of putting them behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets. But in the Los Alamos case, the damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber...
...immediate and considerable: Not only has she raised questions about her commitment to a soft-money ban by hedging over the agreement, she's allowed Lazio to hijack an issue she once controlled. Lazio met her demands, gathered those signatures, and showed up at her doorstep like a proud cat presenting a hard-won mouse to its horrified owner...
...real names? What do their groupie girlfriends call them in bed? Are their mothers confused? And most importantly, who writes these fabulous lyrics? (Sample: "Breaking up is hard enough / Say you had nothing but I called your bluff / You got my sweaters, my hat, I can't find my cat / The hardest part of breaking up is getting back your stuff...