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...short of the $51.1 million that "Men in Black" grossed last year on the Fourth of July. Add to this the fact that "Godzilla" earned $35 million less than last year's Memorial Day winner, "The Lost World," and you might think the major studios are ready to plead poverty. But in fact, box office receipts are up 9 percent from last summer. Though the much-hyped blockbusters aren't quite blockbusting, other surprise successes such as "Mulan" and "Dr. Dolittle" have been attracting audiences quietly and reliably...
...Lewinsky is represented by two criminal lawyers so steeped in the ways of Washington that their clients rarely show up in court except to plead guilty to some misdemeanor whose connection with the case at hand is not immediately apparent. Presumably these are the sort of lawyers who, unlike Starr, know how to leak information without leaving fingerprints and, unlike Ginsburg, have better things to do on Sunday morning than destroy their client's case on network television...
Only connect.... These narratives plead their cause to the human ear, asking it to remind the soul of its need to connect. Metaphorical entities themselves, the stories are also intertwined in their single-threaded loneliness, voicing the message that Byers obviously wants to give...
...Paris Friday. Sources close to Judge Herve Stephan say it's a sign his probe is wrapping up. Stephan seems ready to put Diana's death down to drunk driver Henri Paul, and this is the last chance for those who blame the paparazzi, or an international conspiracy, to plead their case...
Time was running out. Microsoft had announced plans to release Windows 98 to manufacturers this week. The Department of Justice wanted to file an antitrust suit before that happened. As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman BILL GATES asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections. And so on Tuesday evening, at the headquarters of Microsoft's Washington lobbyists, Gates met JOEL KLEIN, the department's top antitrust enforcer. Gates did most of the talking; Klein had instructed his aides to "let him have...