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...Republican Governor William Milliken called the "650 Lifer Law" his biggest mistake. The 1978 law mandated a life-without-parole term for possession with intent to deliver at least 650 g (about 1.4 lbs.) of heroin or cocaine. But though the law was intended to net big fish, few major dealers got hit. In fact, 86% of the "650 lifers" had never done time; 70% were poor. "A lot of them were young people who made very stupid mistakes but shouldn't have to pay for it for the rest of their lives," says state representative Barbara Dobb, the Republican...
...vulgar tapes. (Against all odds, shockumentaries can bring families together.) In one particularly gripping tape, a Brazilian crowd flees a fireworks display gone haywire. "That's amazing," Nash says. "Do we know if anyone got hurt?" NBC, like Fox, the network Nash usually works with, is squeamish about showing major injuries. The Brazilian scene is accepted, not only because it passes the no-maiming criterion but also because it--as Nash explains it--"tells a story." A tape of a fight between fraternity boys and locals at a football game fails because it's "nothing more than random violence...
...Sundance "It Girl" phenomenon started back in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape's Andie MacDowell, a model whose only previous major role had been as Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan. Feisty Parker Posey had been banging around no-budget films for years until the 1997 festival hits Party Girl and The House of Yes gave her enough cachet to play Tom Hanks' girlfriend in You've Got Mail. And Christina Ricci, a former child actress best known as the Addams Family's creepy daughter Wednesday, broke into the big time last year with tarty, career-shaking turns...
...Another major market is people who type too much and suffer from repetitive-stress injury. According to some estimates, within a few years half of all workers who type on computers will complain of some form of RSI, from numb fingers to inflamed wrists. In fact, I decided to try out Naturally-Speaking Mobile because of Dragon Systems Inc.'s history of making great voice-recognition software, NaturallySpeaking Preferred, for PCs. I've known lots of reporters with burned-out wrists who now dictate their stories and who swear by Dragon's products...
...conspiracy to conceal it. But the perjury charges do not throw open the doors to witnesses, and witnesses are what the House prosecutors want above all: witnesses are their last chance to sway opinion. The obstruction case, the Republicans realized, was the fastest way to convince Senators that the major players had to be called. "Let me ask you two questions," Hutchinson said. "First: Can you convict the President of the United States without hearing testimony of one of the key witnesses? Second: Can you dismiss the charges under this strong set of facts and circumstances without hearing and evaluating...