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...surrendered to police in Colorado. Two days earlier four of the other fugitives, who had been living in a trailer park, attending bible classes and mixing with their neighbors, gave themselves up when they were surrounded by heavily armed police. A fifth committed suicide rather than surrender. The gang members, who escaped from prison where they were serving long sentences for rape, murder and other serious crimes, will most likely face the death penalty for allegedly murdering a police officer, who was killed in a shootout when the gang raided a sporting goods store...
...Whether the Coen Brothers' whimsical Appalachian "Odyssey" becomes the catalyst for a folk revival the way "The Sting" did for ragtime remains to be seen, but at the very least this fascinating collection gives a welcome airing to some of American music's most seminal components, from prison-gang hollers to children's sing-alongs. Although it's dominated by artists mostly associated with bluegrass, the "O Brother" soundtrack covers an era that slightly predates that style, as befits a movie...
Fortunately somebody is working on it. A handful of companies, notably twin goliaths Microsoft and Yahoo, have formed a coalition called IMUnified to attack the problem. Unfortunately AOL, which between ICQ and AIM controls 80% of the market, isn't part of the gang. That's what has the FCC's regulatory knickers in a knot...
...expects a gang member to turn traitor. "They are blood brothers," says Coons. And any potential rat would be killed by the others. But the cash they have on hand (less than $70,000) will eventually run out. Unless they are captured (the reward is now $300,000), expect the gang to strike again. As the note they left in prison said, "You haven't heard the last...
...Britain's Booker Prize, portrayed two improbable 19th century Aussie dreamers obsessed with the notion of hauling a glass church across the outback. In Jack Maggs (1998), Carey produced an engaging variation on Dickens' Great Expectations. And he is up to new tricks in True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; 352 pages; $25), which purports to be a first-person narrative written by Ned Kelly, the outlaw who terrorized and enchanted Australians during the 1870s and who remains something of a national hero and legend...