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...example, the 74-year-old actor related his own experience grappling with Time-Warner over the release of rapper Ice-T's album "Cop Killer...
...Greenspan and Summers--and their henchmen at the International Monetary Fund--have turned nations like Malaysia and Russia into leper colonies by isolating them from global capital and making life hellish in order to protect U.S. growth. The three admit they've made hard choices--and they'll even cop to some mistakes--but they still believe that a strong U.S. economy is the last, best hope for the world...
...dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue," a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Robert Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. Our cop is bone tired, trying to track the lurching progress of Fluke Kelso, an academic who has dug up the diary of Stalin's last days. The failing dictator got a woman pregnant, the papers suggest, and she may have returned to Archangel, her home in the north. Kelso and a TV reporter head up there, followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they...
...reign, Fiennes takes a backseat to the Virgin Queen, Cate Blanchett. Again, Fiennes the philanderer takes on the guise of a lovesick puppy who sacrifices everything for his one true thing. His passionate declarations of loyalty play off nicely against the sweet princess turned ice queen. The cinematographic cop-outs distract from the fluidity of the film, as does the production design, which uses color and shadow to beat the symbolic dead horse. That's the curse of the artsy indie, I guess. The film does have its moments, however, where the jumps in time and costumes serve a unique...
Thanks to decades of cop shows, there's one thing Americans know about being arrested: You have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, and anything you say may be used against you. These rights became required reading for police when taking a suspect into custody after the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling. But this week, a federal court in Virginia may have opened the way for the Supreme Court to put an end to a reading of the Miranda warnings. "The lower court ruling could be the start of something dramatic," says TIME writer...