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...thief, a legend among the felon class of Long Beach, Calif. Six years ago, Memphis gave up stealing cars so his young brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) would have a better role model. But Kip went into boosting cars anyway, and now he's in trouble. Your standard movie wacko (Christopher Eccleston) will kill the kid if Memphis doesn't come out of retirement and steal 50 cars in three days...
Wise, 49, is an animal-rights lawyer--or "animal-rights wacko," in the view of Rush Limbaugh. Wise has spent 20 years standing up in court for deer, cats, bald eagles, dolphins, assorted primates and other beleaguered species. It is a profession that Wise, who has a gift for comedy, finds amusing. In his study hangs a favorite cartoon, of a dog raising his right paw to take the oath in court, and the caption: "Rover v. Wade...
Stephen Wise is a 49-year-old animal rights lawyer -- or "animal rights wacko," if you join in the hilarity of Rush Limbaugh, who used to introduce items about people like Wise by playing "Born Free," with ricocheting gunfire and wild animal squawks in the background. Limbaugh should get a kick out of Wise's new book, called "Rattling the Cage," which Jane Goodall, in the preface, declares to be the "animals' Magna Carta...
...specialty 25 First to putt 26 Israeli in Palestine/Israel talks, Oded __ 28 The Wreck of the Mary __ 30 Blue or green shade 31 J.F.K. terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported by Gore, Bradley 43 Wacko 44 Shopaholics' meccas 45 __ Blue (show that firefighters want boycotted) 47 One of Elian's grandmothers 50 Warner Music chairman Ames 53 Environmental prefix 54 __ Service (Melisse Shapiro e-novel) 55 Give the slip to 56 Use a keyhole 57 Agent's take 58 Targets for McNair...
...Basically, you're dismantling piece by piece by piece the case against Randall Adams [a man unjustly imprisoned for shooting a policeman], which consisted of five 'eyewitnesses.' There three wacko eyewitnesses that claim to have passed by the crime scene at that crucial moment, a policewoman, and David Harris, the chief prosecution witness who turns out to be the real killer. And so we learn sequentially that all of these accounts are wrong...