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...Water Engine provides the same themes of despair, exploitation, and corporate greed as are found in other Mamet productions such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross. But don't expect strict realism, or the rapid-fire tough talk for which Mamet is known. Mamet originally wrote the play in 1976 as a radio play for National Public Radio, not for the stage. But director Stephen Benson, making his debut with the Pet Brick Players, takes up the challenge. The set - a radio studio, fitted with old-fashioned microphones - bolsters the theme of communication stressed throughout the piece...
Massachusetts Gov. A. Paul Cellucci quickly took advantage of the charged atmosphere to propose two changes to the judicial system. He first vowed to renew a push for the state to adopt strict sentencing guidelines. Cellucci then said that he would file a bill to give prosecutors, as well as defendants, the right to appeal sentences. Both of these proposals would hurt the justice system more than they would help...
Cellucci's first initiative, which would tie the hands of judges and turn the sentencing process into some sort of mathematical equation, is not the answer. Cellucci has said the state should adopt strict sentencing guidelines, drawn up in 1994 but never implemented. The sentencing rules would severely curtail a judge's discretion in determining a criminal's punishment. By matching a defendant's previous record against the crime, a grid would reveal the maximum penalty a judge could give. Two-thirds of that sentence would be the minimum. If the judge issued a sentence outside those bounds, either...
...this ruling is a particularly harsh indictment; executives hoped the site's strict "usage guidelines" - the company claims participants are forced to prove they own a particular CD before listening to the songs, a bit of legally inspired window-dressing that seems both illogical and unlikely - would help protect the company from record companies' wrath. They were wrong. And now, as the music industry learns of Universal's hefty win, MP3 faces another round of jaw-dropping fines - while the site managed to cut deals with several record companies to stanch any legal action, only half of the music featured...
Dotcom-driven rents have become a hot-button election issue. Two propositions headed for the November ballot in San Francisco attack the way tech firms have wiggled around strict zoning restrictions on office space by defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise...