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Talk about boffo box office. Now showing in 2,327 theaters in the U.S., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the biggest-opening blockbuster of all time. The third in the series of cliff-hanging tales directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Crusade has been breaking records since it made its debut May 24. The film accounted for more than half of all the movie tickets sold in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend. Fans paid $11.2 million to see it on May 27 alone, the biggest one-day take ever scored by a movie, and shelled...
There has not been a municipal audit since 1985, but estimates of current debt run as high as $40 million. The city's mercurial third-term mayor, Carl Officer, 37, has gone so far as to propose selling city hall and six fire stations to raise cash, assuming anybody would buy them. City employees routinely get paid a month or more late...
...degrading other people. By the age of 16, the typical child has witnessed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including 33,000 murders. Inevitably, contend many experts, some youngsters will imitate the brutality in real life. In a 22-year study, researchers tracked the development of 875 third-graders from a rural community in New York. Among the discoveries: those who watched the greatest amount of violent television at the age of eight were the most likely to show aggressive behavior at 19 and later. About one-quarter of the students were considered violent at 30 -- they had been...
...crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store as his regular customers. Some of the others were toothless, hungry folk in tattered clothes, who came from nearby shantytowns. By 2 p.m., a mob of more than 500 filled the parking lot. "I thought of closing the doors," Nicastro says. "But what good would it do? With all this glass...
...fellow conservatives, however, find him delightful. Says John Buckley, spokesman for the Republican Congressional Committee: "Gingrich is classic agitprop -- great with devising the arguments to forward our revolution. I see him as one-third Thomas Paine, one-third Winston Churchill and one-third Genghis Khan...