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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crane's name was his frame: a gangly galoot and, when he fell for buxom Katrina Van Tassel, an easy prey for the burly lads of Sleepy Hollow. In Burton's revision and Depp's incarnation, Crane is a Manhattan constable sent upriver to solve a murder; predating Poe's Auguste Dupin by several decades, he is America's first detective. He is also a troubled soul, carrying literal scars from childhood and memories that roil his sleep. So handsome, so haunted, he proves irresistible to this Katrina (Christina Ricci). Yet Depp bumbles and stumbles, just like the old Ichabod...
...with a beak nose and, by his own admission, an interest in Ping-Pong, sex and playing the accordion. "I Kiss You!!!!!"--runs the greeting of the Mahir home page--a normal enough salutation in his native Turkey but a thrill to the hordes of fans who have sent e-mails recommending his site to friends. Cagri, who "invitates" any young women coming to his hometown of Izmir to stay in his home, has provoked Clinton-based parodies, flash animations and a large Web fan club. He told the Turkish press that the site was a joke perpetrated...
...Amazon.com describes the perfect online shopping experience as launching your browser and finding on the screen the exact item you want--which you may not have even known you wanted until that very moment. "One product," he says, "with one button. And you click on it, and it is sent to you and improves the quality of your life...
...MatchLogic, content sites like Time.com (TIME's online affiliate), and even retailers like Amazon.com are able to gather information by depositing numerical files called cookies into your Web browser. Embedded in the cookie is an identifying number, like a cyber fingerprint, that alerts a server to your presence. Whoever sent the cookie can monitor where you go on the Web, what you click on, what you read, what you buy and what you don't buy. Some sites, including Amazon, maintain strict privacy policies that promise to guard the data being gathered. But advertising networks like DoubleClick have openly built...
JAIL BAIT How much crack does it take to get sent up for five years? The Senate held hearings in Washington last week about reducing the minimum-mandatory-sentencing (MMS) guidelines to bring the powder-cocaine limit down from 500 g to 50 g--closer to the 5 g of crack that gets you a nickel...