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EVITA Defying their Vice President's plea to boycott, Argentines flock to First Lady's resurrection on film...
...least 50 complaints alleging that Cohen, a former Florida state representative, made improper sexual advances to minors dating back to 1972. In 1992, after being charged with one count of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment and two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct, Cohen accepted a plea agreement and was given 15 years' probation, which "prohibits his association with minor children for any purposes." A judicial hearing on whether he has violated his probation, scheduled for last Friday, was postponed. Cohen is asking the judge to reduce restrictions on his ability to leave the state without the court...
...peace talks would be rewarded by more economic cooperation, an offer sure to resonate in a nation torn by economic crisis. In recent weeks, the U.S. has made good on similar offers of aid, most notably by pledging $10 million in relief after Nort h Korea made an emergency plea to the World Food Program. Incentives aside, some analysts say the sheer number of dilemmas faced by North Korea -- epitomized by the defection of high-ranking official Hwang Jang Yop -- may have it teetering on the edg e of collapse, and that, more than any promise of aid, is what...
...with Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp played an abandoned monster with cutlery where his digits should have been, trying with sweetly contained but (considering his weaponry) dangerous eagerness to adjust to suburban normalcy. Everyone from moony adolescents to case-hardened movie critics could read the silent, yet somehow unsentimental, plea for succor emanating from his deep obsidian eyes, wonderfully set off by whiteface makeup...
PLEADED GUILTY. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK, 73, Nobel-prizewinning scientist for his work on viruses; to two counts of child abuse; in Frederick, Maryland. In a plea bargain, Gajdusek will serve up to a year in jail for molesting a 16-year...