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...darkest mysteries of Congress: who was the mastermind behind the biggest heist of the year--the delivery of a $50 billion tax break for tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders...
...plane on autopilot doesn't hold up, critics say, citing evidence showing the jet changed course near the last point it was sighted -- an impossibility if the plane was on automatic. TIME's Mark Thompson says the plane's course does not necessarily support the theory of an aircraft heist. "Air Force people are saying the plane's circular motion could have been due to the fact that the plane only had about 90 seconds worth of fuel left. And since the plane has two engines, it's highly unlikely they both would have cut out simultaneously. In other words...
Even though a civilian is three times as likely to be caught in the middle of a convenience-store stickup as in a bank heist, bank crime is a big image problem for both cities and banks. Memphis, Tennessee, where bank robberies doubled last year, has set up a task force to fight the trend. In Orlando, banks have banded together to share security costs and put up a $90,000 reward. And banks everywhere are rethinking design and location factors that make branches not only consumer friendly but robber friendly as well, such as their being scattered along freeways...
...knockoff band called Tres Hombres, Thornton figured he and Epperson could strike it rich in New York City (that visit lasted all of 10 hours) and then Los Angeles. Together they wrote Thornton's eye-catching role as the white-trash murderer in One False Move. In this heralded heist film, shot in Arkansas in 1991, Thornton is never scarier than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle...
...only has a predominantly black cast but also deals with African-American themes. Thus, for movie executives, an Eddie Murphy comedy like The Nutty Professor--a blockbuster that grossed $129 million from a diverse audience--doesn't count; Spike Lee movies do. So does Set It Off, the heist movie starring Queen Latifah that was a modest hit this fall, with grosses of $26 million, mostly from blacks...