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Paul, 41, died instantly. His body, thrust halfway through the windshield, leaned against the horn, which wailed bleakly out of the wreckage. Rees-Jones, the only passenger wearing a seat belt, was alive but badly hurt, his jaw shattered and his tongue reportedly severed. If Diana had been wearing a seat belt, would she have survived? Though the front of the car was crushed, the rear passenger compartment, in which she and Dodi were riding, was not. She came to rest in the footwell, slumped so that she was facing toward the rear of the car with her head leaning...
...aspire to the standards of a Third World nation. Fecal matter in the water, bodies piled and rotting in the un-air-conditioned morgue, potholes that could kill if the stray bullets don't--these are familiar stories to District dwellers. A recent expose in the Washington Post offered jaw-dropping statistics on the amount of wasted funds and government bloat. Washington spends more money and has more employees than any other city. Yet the high school dropout rate has passed 50%, crime is up 16% since 1991, and tuberculosis and infant-mortality rates are the highest in the nation...
...more than a dozen pages--an ear-perfect comedy routine of the ancient, comfortable insults that men use to get through a day of work. Virgil Caudill, in his early 30s, is laboring his way up to foreman on the Rocksalt, Ky., garbage-collecting crew. He and his pals jaw away at one another about an almighty hangover one of them has shown up with, about a flashy woman in a gaudy car, about a pup one of them is trying to sell: "I ain't sure that is a dog, boys. My opinion, that's a possum...
...jaw hurt, my neck hurt, I was scared stiff," he remembers. "All I could think was that they said cut, they said cut and it was over. But in real life someone could have died that way and no one would have cared...
People there pop pills to raise their depressed spirits. They cover their paranoia with clenched-jaw politesse. They don't quite understand Martin's dismay when he discovers that his boyhood home has been replaced by a convenience store--where the clerk gets so lost in a noisy video game that he fails to notice a real-life gun battle breaking out in his aisles. Therein lies this movie's fundamental irony: anarchy may bloom from Martin's gun barrel, but unlike his old pals, he is not in denial about it. He is still trying to nurture the shoots...