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...more question. The mob in Providence and this story...
...movie: a Sylvester Stallone vehicle called the The Specialist (cost: $2.95). Then, pressing the "fast-forward" button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether or not to take Brad Renfro...
...cover versions of Little Richard and Little Eva. This odd couple, the Beatles and Auntie Beeb, hit it off, as the lads gaily bantered between numbers. When asked, "Do you ever get tired of being Beatles?" the four break into yawns of boredom. George Harrison explains that to avoid mob scenes, the guys go to restaurants "where the people there are so snobby they're the type who pretend they don't know us, so we have a good time." To which Paul McCartney gives a twist: "Joe's Caf. Social comment, that, y'know." The gigs were half Bandstand...
...lingering euphoria of Aristide's return. When U.S. soldiers chaperoned the President home seven weeks ago, the big question was whether he was up to the job. By most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill for the politics of pragmatism...
Residents of al-Mograka were among an estimated 2,000 Palestinians who overran the Israeli army position guarding Netzarim on Nov. 19, forcing the soldiers to retreat temporarily while the mob raised the Hamas flag over the outpost. The incident prompted the military to fortify the position and strengthen the troop force there. Still, the soldiers remain edgy. "The situation is normal -- that is, dangerous," says one of the troopers...