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...domestic political issue. Even as the President comes out swinging now that the 24 U.S. personnel are safe, his handling of his first international crisis is taking a hammering on the right, where commentators are lining up to bash it as dangerous appeasement. And it has to sting a little when a president seeking to model himself on Ronald Reagan is accused by true-blue conservatives of having handled the matter as Bill Clinton would have...
...sting that led to the suspension found five underage Harvard students in the bar. Two of those students, both first-years, say ABCC investigators told them Harvard would not be notified of the sting...
...long disappearance and gradual, Pee-wee-free return has made him more palatable, and Reubens is eager to regain his manic pace. Two weeks ago, he taped an episode of Ally McBeal in which he tries to sue Sting for breaking up his marriage to Cheri Oteri, and last Tuesday he guested on the Tonight Show. He is going to be host of You Don't Know Jack, a game show for ABC. He talks about wanting to remake the Eddie Cantor movie Kid Millions and writing his autobiography. He's also still pushing the variety show-sitcom Meet...
Most people seem to assume that there's no such thing as overdosing on an over-the-counter pill; if one dose doesn't take the sting from their pain, they simply pop another. But you can't gobble acetaminophen tablets like so many M&Ms. The drug produces toxic byproducts that are funneled to the liver--which ends up working overtime to clear them out of the body. If you ingest too much acetaminophen, toxins can build up in the bloodstream and do serious damage...
Except Cross does not do all that much profiling in this movie, which is surprisingly short on psychology and long on just about everything else. Conveniently knocked out of "retirement" after his partner is killed in an excruciatingly melodramatic sting-operation-gone-wrong, Cross goes through all the moves in tracking down Soneji. But we are never given any hint that Cross is actually probing the depths of Soneji's brain and trying to figure out how he works. Or, maybe it is because Soneji is so obvious Cross doesn't even need...