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...Gladiator I hated this movie. The plot was ridiculous, the acting leaden, the screenplay (which also received a nomination, a final and irrefutable indication that the vast majority of Academy voters are on crack, most likely picked up on the set of "Traffic") asinine. Give this bloated monster a nod for costumes, or set design or lighting, and I won't complain. But when you open up the Best Picture field to dreck like this, you're just steps away from including Tom Green?s next movie. And that, by the way, is not a good thing...
...Tonya Drake, 35, a mother of four. She had no criminal record or history of drug use before she made the unfortunate decision to mail a package for a friend in exchange for $44. The package's contents were unknown to her, but happened to contain 200 grams of crack cocaine. She was caught, threw herself on the mercy of the court much like Vali did, and is now serving 10 years in federal prison on a "possession with intent to distribute" conviction. Drake is also black and poor, and has probably never seen Harvard...
...there was a problem, and the problem was that we didn't have the policy that we have now," says Carole Kleinfelder, who has coached women's lacrosse for more than two decades. House-sponsored happy hours and the 18-year-old drinking age made it difficult to crack down on drinking, she says...
...Those ideas would require plenty of diplomatic arm-twisting and would take years to implement. A common E.U. asylum policy isn't expected before 2004. Until then European countries will set their own standards, which isn't great news for immigrants. A new Spanish law that aims to crack down on smuggling also provides for the expulsion of immigrants residing in the country without legal permission. Italy has opened a broad front in its battle against illegal immigration: the government has established repatriation accords with East European and North African countries under which illegal immigrants apprehended on Italian territory...
...large syndicates based in Thailand and Malaysia control the arms-smuggling trade but it is administered by a dizzyingly complex system of middlemen like Joe. When the police do crack down, those at the top, the brains running the muscle, are never touched. Take a man like Samnang. A 45-year-old arms trader, his daytime job is as a border guard on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia. "I am an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier," he says, smiling easily. We are talking outside his office at the bustling gateway, and Samnang is dressed for work - blue shirt...