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Both students were arrested when police discovered the illicit drugs while executing the search warrant, and pleaded not guilty to all charges after arrest...
...thing the studios have learned is that not even kids want to see kids' movies. "They want what's slightly illicit," says David Vogel, president of Disney's family-fare division. Rather than being an enticement, the family-film label is now used sparingly. Even though Meledandri's division is called Fox Family Films, the studio won't release pictures under that banner for fear of driving audiences away...
...term that ends this month marks Scalia's 10th year on the Supreme Court. He has tirelessly argued that case-by-case, seat-of-the-pants jurisprudence turns judges into illicit legislators who substitute their policy preferences for those of the people's democratically elected officials. Last week, for example, he refused to join the rest of the court in holding that the tax-supported, men-only Virginia Military Institute violated women's right to equal protection of the laws. A democratic system, Scalia wrote, "is destroyed if the smug assurances of each age are removed from the democratic process...
Outside the city's dozens of nightclubs and honky-tonks, violence and corruption ruled the streets. Inside, in the back rooms, there was illicit gambling and who knew what else. But up on the bandstands, the jazz musicians of Kansas City swung through it all. Absorbed, imperturbable, they played within a sort of bubble of purity: theirs were the only disinterested passions in town. Or so it seems in Robert Altman's new film, Kansas City, set in the 1930s heyday of "Boss" Tom Pendergast, when an extraordinary concentration of jazz talent flourished in the city (and a wide-eyed...
...incident has sparked fear among students, who cite the Currier drug bust as only one in a string of crackdowns on illicit alcohol and drug use on campus this year...