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Diehard fans contain their disappointment and rate it better than "Jedi" but no "Empire," and in a different category altogether than the dreadfully scripted, poorly acted and infinitely enjoyable "Star Wars." Critics range from "crap" (The New Yorker's Anthony Lane) to a wan "up to snuff" (the Times' Janet Maslin). No matter: "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" is here, having opened in theaters on Wednesday morning at 12:01 a.m. And with pre-sold-out, round-the-clock showings in every theater from here to Tatooine -- and an estimated 2.2 million people playing "Wookie Hooky" from work Wednesday...
This announcement is for airline bosses sitting in the first class section: Fasten your seat belts -- you are about to encounter turbulence. Yes, on Thursday Attorney General Janet Reno announced the launching of a major antitrust suit against American Airlines. The charge: predatory practices by American at its Dallas-Fort Worth hub -- such as the calculated use of lower fares and more flights -- to push out start-up airlines. "This is the first major action of its kind since deregulation of the industry in 1978," says TIME senior business writer John Greenwald. And together with the department?s announcement that...
...Byzantium. The Albuquerque agents filed their warrant request with the Justice Department in July 1997. Officials there concluded that the FBI did not have sufficient proof that Lee posed a national-security threat grave enough to merit a raid on his computer. Exasperated FBI authorities appealed to Attorney General Janet Reno, but she wouldn't budge. Attempts to get more goods on Lee turned up nothing. Says a veteran counterespionage investigator of China's spy network: "They're everywhere, but it's hard to catch them doing anything...
...approved, Lawrence will join CEA Chair Janet L. Yellen, who served as an assistant professor at Harvard in the 1970's, and CEA member Rebecca M. Blank, an economics professor on leave from Northwestern University...
...stride, though, using the aisles and risers with remarkable grace. The music was loud and well suited to the complicated hip-hop and jazz moves that are Mainly Jazz's style. Between the charming chair-dancing routine in Salt and Pepa's "Shoop" and a seductive rendition of Janet Jackson's "Velvet Rope," there came a point in the performance where neither Salt nor Pepa nor Ms. Jackson herself could have better choreographed the dancing to the words, melody and soul of the music...