Word: roughnesses
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...sleazy image persists because, as the competition increases, business tactics are getting rough. Police say hosts are preying on housewives and teenage girls, who are sometimes forced into prostitution when they can't pay off five- or six-figure bills. "Schoolgirls are always looking for the latest fad," says Sawamura, "and right now, host clubs...
...phone-bank techniques will now be turned to stopping Ashcroft. But Ashcroft has broad and deep support among social conservatives. More than 180 groups, led by the Free Congress Foundation, have signed on to support him with grass-roots lobbying. Privately, some Democrats say it's useful to rough up Ashcroft, even if just to scare Bush into picking more moderate judges or Justices --and to preclude the chance that Ashcroft might someday land on the Supreme Court. "That's where the endgame is," says Ohio Republican Mike DeWine. "John will be used for the next battle, which...
...little better. While California's electricity system remains in a precarious position, most observers are cautiously optimistic that the lights will stay on over the weekend. Many of the plants that were down for repairs are going back online. The weather, while still bad, shouldn't be as rough as Thursday's torrential storms, and Diablo Canyon is already up and running to full capacity. Also, now that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has extended the emergency order requiring generators to sell power to the strapped California market until next Wednesday, suppliers won't be able to turn off the spigot...
...Bush just stands by Ashcroft during what promises to be a rough hearing, couldn't that satisfy any debt he feels to conservatives...
...have left out a lot of details in this rough account of a very long and complicated narrative--for instance, Don Cheadle's smart, funny cop on perpetual stakeout, Miguel Ferrer's cynically truthful midlevel dealer--but there is a possibly predictable downside to this multiplicity of story lines: they keep interrupting one another. Just as you get interested in one, Stephen Gaghan's script, inspired by a British mini-series, jerks you away to another...