Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's exactly the problem with Elizabeth. When the film thrusts the young thing into a den of wolves as savage and wily as the Mafia barons of The Godfather or the Japanese businessmen of Rising Sun, it wrings its hands somewhat too emphatically at Elizabeth's shrewd, momentous steps to transfigure herself into an emblem to lead her country. If Elizabeth's mutation into the Virgin Queen is the death of her womanhood, and happiness, as the film asserts, her sexuality--that which she renounces to rule the nation--ought to seem a little more respectable...
Will Smith is Robert Dean, a D.C. labor lawyer involved in a violent union dispute involving the mafia. Dean receives incriminating evidence for his trials from his old girlfriend (Lisa Bonet of "The Cosby Show" fame), who works as an agent of a secretive, unknown informant namd Brill (a grizzled Gene Hackman). Dean lives the perfect American life with a loving wife, wonderful children, a beautiful house and his prized juice blender. But everything changes when a bird-watcher (Jason Lee) catches the execution of a venerable U.S. Congressman by the head of the National Security Agency (Jon Voight). Soon...
...preliminary evidence presented in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft and Bill Gates (involving the company's attempts to buy off Netscape, its chief rival in the Internet browser field) [BUSINESS, Nov. 2], it would appear that Microsoft has taken a page out of the Mafia's playbook: You want to remain in business, you have to do it our way or no way. If it is true that Microsoft used these tactics, then it sure sounds similar to extortion. BRUCE L. RIVERS Tucson, Ariz...
...probably because she won't join the boys on favored-nation status for China, or she once called Newt Gingrich a fat boy and voted against re-electing him Speaker in 1997, or, most likely, because she rails against special-interest money, which is like being in the Mafia and saying you've got a problem with the loan sharking. Whatever, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has withheld most of the $540,000 they could have given Smith, and news of this has angered people into sending money directly to her. It has also shamed Republican leaders into throwing Smith...
...infamous June 1995 meeting with the tough-talking software titan and his cohorts, "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed," the browser whiz kid told Justice Department lawyers. But as the Microsoft antitrust trial enters its third day, Redmond attorneys continue to argue that brutal mafia-speak is no vice in the cuttthroat software industry. "Antitrust laws," said Microsoft counsel John Warden, "are not a code of civility...