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...naked, battered body was found under a pine tree on the grounds of her home. She was beaten to death with a golf club after going to the Skakel home with a group of friends. Thomas, a onetime suspect in the case, and Michael, said to have had a crush on the girl, were among the last people to see her alive. The defense has tried to suppress the diary, branding it hearsay. But Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed the entries as they display Moxley's "emotional state of mind...
...film, directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp, is a faithful adaptation of the Stan Lee original--faithful to a fault. Spidey, a.k.a. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), is still the teen dweeb from Queens with a crush on the girl next door (Kirsten Dunst), a dose of genetically altered spider DNA in his veins and a compulsion to save the world from the gaudy Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Sure, he can leap tall buildings with several sticky bounds, but he's also nearly grounded by a load of unresolved guilt. Plenty of classic heroes--Oedipus, Hamlet, Luke Skywalker...
...state of emergency and ordered the army into battle. Deuba?whose ancestral country home was torched by the Maoists last month?took the collapse of the cease-fire as a personal affront. "I was betrayed," he says. "I was too lenient. They gave me no option but to crush them...
FRANCE Scrambling to Save The Country's Soul After the earthquake, the rescue work. French political leaders rallied behind President Jacques Chirac to crush the far-right National Front's candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the second round of presidential voting on May 5. While Le Pen - who edged past Socialist Lionel Jospin to face center-right Chirac in the runoff - promised another electoral shock, Chirac refused to debate him. Stating that Le Pen's "intolerance and hatred" made that impossible, Chirac said France's situation was grave, with "its soul, its cohesion, its role in Europe...
...beat MacDowell at the crying game. "Sometimes it's so easy--you have a few tears roll down your cheeks," she says. "And sometimes it hurts, because you have to go to a place you maybe haven't been. I'd just gone through my divorce before making Crush, so I was in a lot of pain--which actually helped!" In one scene, Kate has to confront her friends' betrayal. "When I started to cry," MacDowell says, "I didn't know if I was going to be able to stop...