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...alleged bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was reportedly motivated by the mishandling of the federal government assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. If Ben-Shachar is to eliminate the possibility of speech ever causing violence, all sources of news therefore should have been censored, even before anyone was aware of how the siege would end. It is difficult to see how any communication at all could take place in Ben-Shachar's regime, as someone somewhere might take some element of some speech as a reason to engage in some act of violence. If this is Ben-Shachar...
...know just how the Mafia skimmed the profits from its Las Vegas operation, or how not-so-wise-guys tried to scam it, Casino is instructive in an almost documentary way. But Scorsese, one of the cinema's great stylists, has evolved a manner for his film--a compound of mini-dissolves, jump cuts, freeze frames and optical effects--that is anything but documentary. It is a kind of objective correlative for the way Sam keeps an eye on things--roving distantly, then boring in on whatever looks suspicious--nd if it is sometimes distancing, it is equally often brilliant...
...Reporters get stir crazy," Kristof said. "You have to live in a compound. You're guarded 24 hours...
Amid continued partisan sniping, the House hearings on the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...
...teacher from Fairmont, West Virginia, and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. For if Cady, who has struggled to bring her weight down from 264 lbs. to 195, is any example, the market for such a compound could be huge. "Almost anyone," she wryly observes, "would be sorely tempted to try something that seems to promise nirvana...