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Today Abouhalima and three colleagues sit quietly in Courtroom 318 in downtown Manhattan, six blocks from the Twin Towers, watching intently as their lawyers and the prosecutors joust over the selection of jurors. So prominent is the case that U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy rounded up 5,000 citizens in his effort to assemble an unbiased jury -- 10 times the number called for last year's sensational trial of Mob chieftain John Gotti. Opening arguments in the bombing case are expected to begin next week. The trial will probably take three to four months, all the while under heavy security...
Living in a confining, rented apartment in Martha's Vineyard, Madeleine and her roommate, Fergus, joust with each other intellectually and sexually after drinking a hallucinogenic tea that Fergus purchases from a street vendor. Madeleine finds frustrations in her paltry job, over-bearing summer theatre director and contradictory impulses towards flirting and serious involvement. In a series of bizarre dreams, she draws in Fergus and other characters from her closed world. In his own dreams involving a mysterious dancer, Fergus explores his frustration in his bisexuality, his inability to finish his book, and his exhiliratingly passionate nature...
...latest Don Quixote to joust with the Rice Curtain, Japan's barrier to offshore grain imports, is Osaka's Fujio Matsumoto. His 44 Sushi Boy restaurants serve the popular dish at bargain prices. Matsumoto wants to cut charges further by importing 100,000 pieces of frozen sushi from California, wrapped in cheap American rice. The government must decide whether the entree is a creation unto itself, allowing it to circumvent the strict trade barrier, or a sly combination of raw fish and the very much forbidden U.S. rice. Only then will it be clear if Sushi Boy will succeed where...
...courses all want to be theme parks, or at least themes. A store selling Christmas trinkets is called Christmas World. There are Bargain World, Flea World, Bedroom Land and Waterbedroom Land. At the Medieval Times restaurant, patrons can eat roas meat with their hands and watch knights in armor joust on horseback. At the Arabian Nights, sheiks steal gossamer-clad princesses during dinner shows. Orange County's most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original Peabody...
...first face-off is any measure, Bryan has the more popular case. "The state should get out," he said in the initial joust in Bennington, because, among other things, every Vermonter now owes $12,000 toward the national debt. "How can you love the country and leave it?" countered Dooley, noting that a "cute little government will not stop acid rain." At debate's end, the audience voted 95 to 55 in favor of going it alone...