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...precipitator of the accident, Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal), is an angel-faced punk who's successfully fighting Cofi, the family dog, in illegal arenas and using the winnings to tempt his brother's pregnant wife into running off with him. Then there's the supermodel Valeria (Goya Toledo), whose smart car and lithe body he almost totals just minutes after she has moved in with her latest lover. Finally, there's the witness, El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), who has been a college professor and a guerrilla leader, and is now a street person with a cynical sideline as a killer...
...even Mitch McConnell expected Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly less prostituted existence, if they were willing to take a chance. And more than half of them took...
...taxes are illegal and need not be paid; the news that cheaters don't get caught will only breed other cheaters, whether or not they think they've got the Constitution backing them up. When the cops are off the streets, eventually the fear goes away. And few things tempt Americans more than the prospect of sticking it to the taxman and getting away with...
...show that whether or not Barak cuts a new deal, he'll be comfortably beaten by arch-hawk Ariel Sharon on election day - and that would reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem neighborhoods, Sharon has said that Oslo is null and void and that his idea of peace involves no further Israeli withdrawals from the territories Israel occupied...
...though: There's a history of suicide in Milosevic's family, and it remains a possibility that he could react to the pressure of house arrest and impending prosecution by committing suicide. And then, of course, there's still a $5 million U.S. reward for his capture, which might tempt all kinds of adventurers to organize an attempt to snatch him. Belgrade may even have to put him in custody for his own protection...