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...onset of an asthma attack. It turns out she was trying to catch the eye of a Korean pornographer in the crowd. For most of the characters, anything that can go wrong, does. Money for Gigi's plane ticket to Japan is stolen; another girl, Rose, tries to poison herself after she tracks her son down to a foster home and the kid spits in her face, and one couple who attempt to go straight find themselves back on the mattress to earn money for their dying daughter's medicine. "If anyone gets titillated by this film, he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Scissors | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Listening to other staff members gossip on Monday afternoon, Buse picked up his first hint of trouble. Both McConnell and Texan Phil Gramm, another reform foe, were going to vote with Wellstone. Why would Gramm and McConnell vote with a liberal? Suddenly Buse understood: Wellstone's amendment was a poison pill, with the potential to kill the whole measure. He rushed to warn McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day Dawning | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Bush’s professions that he is unconvinced by the evidence are themselves entirely unconvincing. A favorite poison of mystery writers and the Medici, arsenic is also a known carcinogen. According to one study completed in 1999 by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Arsenic and Old Standards | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes to a conference committee. "It will never reach the President's desk," Rangel said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For McCain, Still Plenty More (Capitol) Hills to Climb | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...armed police and 18 veterinary workers in white coats and rubber boots showed up at 6:45 a.m. on his farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone was carefully watched, and there were even two helicopters flying overhead monitoring all movement. It was as if they'd located an escaped serial killer." Full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales from Europe's Stricken Livestock Farms | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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