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...totally unrelated crime, streaked through a site at the precise moment that the Weinsteins had been directed to leave the ransom there. The anxious family was worried that the kidnappers -- who never showed -- had suspected a trap and might retaliate against their victim. Finally, last Monday morning, came the go-ahead for the money drop. As instructed, Weinstein's eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin. But the kidnapper didn't keep his end of the bargain to release Weinstein...
Although Ferguson will try to shoot down the deal, the AT&T-McCaw merger looks as if it may fly. While the Justice Department has yet to give the two companies the go-ahead, the FCC has in the past looked favorably at such transactions. If the agency does not approve, it can expect to be swiftly inundated with demands from the rest of the industry to be saved from the competitive behemoth that technology has spawned...
...Take your time. To make an ordinary film requires a year or more. Last Action Hero -- unusually expensive, technically complicated, conceptually ambitious -- got the go-ahead barely 10 months ago, and production continued into March (with reshoots in May), making the movie even more costly and sodden than it might have been. Last Action Hero, says the head of one studio, is "an advertisement for stupidity. They way overproduced, and they way overspent...
...Commander in Chief who had never led his troops into battle, Bill Clinton anguished not at all over ordering the raids. Washington had been annoyed at Aidid's resurgence for some time. Less than 24 hours after the U.N. peacekeepers were slain, Clinton gave the Pentagon his go-ahead. The White House took its first military action in stride, as if to create an aura of quiet competence around the President. Clinton did not personally address the issue until his Saturday radio talk, when he declared that U.S. and coalition troops had "successfully attacked" Aidid's positions and struck...
...again, this is an entirely uncritical movie, although a surprisingly likable one. Part of this quality derives from the lively innocence of Jason Scott Lee's performance, and the sweet spunkiness of Lauren Holly as the all-American coed Bruce marries in college. Part of it derives from the go-ahead conviction of Rob Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this...