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About to be busted when a jewel heist goes awry, Miles Logan hides the loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits...
...Smith concludes, also highly unlikely that Dodi and Diana were planning to marry. Not only was that final diamond ring he bought her "vulgar," according to a friend, but, Smith writes, "the days they spent alone were a mere 25. They floated along in an existence that was intense and unreal...[Their romance] was perhaps the clearest evidence that she had made little progress in dealing with her demons." Two summers ago, her fans wept, saying, Diana, we hardly knew ye. With this book, it is now safe to say, Diana, we know more than enough...
...BOOK/AUTHOR] GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, Jared Diamond...
...Roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes, Diamond Multimedia's Rio was the first "Walkman" designed solely to play digital audio files encoded with a form of compression called MP3. MP3 can reduce the storage needs of CD songs to roughly one tenth their original size without significantly sacrificing sound quality, and it has rapidly emerged as an open standard for transmitting music over the Internet. Songs, which can be downloaded from the Internet or "ripped" from CDs, are loaded into the Rio from a personal computer. MORE...
That's why the recording industry sued little Diamond Multimedia when it started selling a portable MP3 player last year. Not only did Diamond win in court, but it also sold 100,000 Rios along the way. With half a dozen other companies racing to produce their own versions of the Rio for Christmas, what could the music industry...