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...despised The Story of Us), and seems so eager to atone for that disaster that she pulls out all the stops for I Am Sam. The first-time director cast the versatile Sean Penn as the lead, the sassy Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer and an adorable little girl (Dakota Fanning) as Penn’s daughter. If that weren’t enough, Nelson fills the soundtrack with catchy Beatles tunes. (You may recently have heard Aimee Mann and Michael Penn’s Two of Us on the adult contemporary airwaves.) All of this adds...
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...Dawson (Penn) is an adult with the mental and emotional age of a seven-year-old. But he's "special" in the best sense--a generous, industrious soul, especially when he's with his daughter Lucy (total charmer Dakota Fanning). Lucy is a sweet, bright kid, devoted to her hampered dad, but now that she is 7, she has started to outstrip Sam in reading and social skills. When the state tries to take her from Sam, he hooks up with a frazzled lawyer (Pfeiffer, playing a more harried Ally McBeal) to win the child back...
Lydon's daughter spray-painted directions to the restaurant on numerous construction planks that have sprouted in the cleanup zone, which other stores also use as free billboards. Apocalyptic signage was also erected by Andrew Menschel, 58, the owner of the Dakota Roadhouse, a bar just north of the Trade Center site. Back when the green police tarp shrouded the site, Menschel scrawled advertisements for his bar all over it: OSAMA MISSED US, WHY SHOULD YOU? Some locals have scolded Menschel for trying to "make profit out of death," but business is so slow he will try anything...
IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE FEDERAL AGENCIES CHARGED WITH ADMINISTERING ANTI-MONEY-LAUNDERING LAWS. Right now, critics say, the 150,000 suspicious-activity alerts filed with the irs are reviewed at a plodding pace. How plodding? Some of the filings are reportedly transcribed at a Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota onto magnetic tape, which is then used on the obsolete data-entry equipment the IRS has dedicated to the project. The turnaround can take nine days--more than enough time for a terrorist who has done something suspicious to have spent the money and moved...