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Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play kink (in Summer of Sam). Nothing erotic--just the use of flesh as a tool of degradation. In the typical movie, sex is violence...
...charges can carry a penalty of up to seven years. But Combs is unlikely to do time. Instead, he will probably plead to a lesser charge and agree to a financial settlement. Such a deal would come with a hefty price tag: Stoute could pocket a payment of anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...
...Ling-Ling dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year. But the National Zoo, where admission is free, doesn't have such deep pockets. Its fund-raisers have pledged $2.5 million over the next 10 years, plus help in conducting a panda census in China and developing a satellite monitoring system...
...that the mission would be long and costly. But all that was supposed to get going after a few days of air strikes--not after three months, during which the Serbs reduced Kosovo to a wasteland and turned more than 800,000 Kosovars into refugees. The Administration's price tag for patrolling and rehabilitating Kosovo will run into billions of dollars. But given that there are 400,000 displaced persons within Kosovo, things may be even worse. "We are all waiting with some trepidation," said U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, "about what happens when we actually get into Kosovo...
...years, and "Millennium," a British television production, take advantage of the historical moment to examine broad trends facing society. On the other hand, London's Millennium Dome, created as a massive ode to the year 2000 complete with art displays, computer exhibits and a multi-million dollar price-tag, is a good example of the movie opening mentality--creating a huge structure in honor of one fleeting moment. To believe that one single moment in time is more significant than those that came before or will come after it is to ignore that basic principle that history is a trajectory...