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...Sight is another fine mess Elmore Leonard has got us into. Basically it's about a congenital bank robber named Jack Foley (George Clooney) who, in the course of a jailbreak, meets and falls into unlikely love with a U.S. marshal named Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). He's the kind of guy who works unarmed except for his gift of smooth gab. She's the kind of girl whose idea of a nice present from her dad is a new pistol. (The actors are terrific and sexy together...
...brought in an estimated $34.8 million this July 4th weekend, far more than the $19.8 million by last week's No. 1 (and this week's No. 2), Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle." Rounding out the top five box office draws over the holiday weekend were "Mulan," "Out of Sight" and "The X-Files Movie." "Armageddon"'s ticket sales were considered less than Earth-shattering, considering its $160 million budget. In its first five days the film brought in $52.9 million, putting it right behind this summer's other top action flick, "Godzilla," which opened with $55.5 million over...
...Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
...strikes are simply a short-term strategy to stop the Serb campaign against civilians. "There's no hope of any progress unless Milosevic makes some concessions, and so far he has given away nothing at all," says Calabresi. "He is pushing the situation toward violent confrontation." Perhaps the sight of Holbrooke will jog his memory...
...much relief in sight, even if the U.S. unemployment rate rises a bit from its 28-year low of 4.3%. In Austin, Texas, for example, the national rate is quite irrelevant. Unemployment there is officially 2.3%, and Steve Mays, director of a suburban grocery store, says only half-jokingly that it "is really minus 1.7%," given the "cannibalism" of employers' swiping workers from one another...