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...know L.A. Confidential has ended, when it is both daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in 50s Los Angeles, with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Space round out a fine cast and a finer tale. --Nicolas R. Rapold...
...forum for the moral voice of America, an insistence that the indecencies of the Chinese communist regime not be drowned out by the realpolitik of day to day political negotiation. For if we have learned anything from the last 60 years of the 20th century, it is that a corrupt and repressive government, if ignored or appeased, will only grow in strength...
...bankers' war, with its attack articles and smears in various financier-controlled media, has taken its toll. It has deepened the impression, widespread in the West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls...
There's a lot at stake. To the government, a Hoffa assumption of power would represent the failure of three decades of law enforcement to rid the union of ties to his father's corrupt regime. To the Democratic Party, it could mean the loss of Teamster donations and support. And to Carey and his staff, it would not only mean personal repudiation but also the failure of their promise to rid the union of its past...
Rawson recounts dozens of fights, his tales of perseverance peopled with corrupt referees, dirty timekeepers and guys with names like "Patty Irish." Rattling off the records and weight classes of opponents the way a preacher might cite lines from scripture, he relives each bout for me, gesticulating with his thick fingers and dodging invisible punches...