Word: warrantable
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...gowns, the tablecloths, the invitations to the Bellevue- Stratford, the announcement in the newspaper. It was gonna have approximately 1,000 guests and cost well over $100,000. They were gonna try and get Michael Jackson to sing. When Salvie backed out, he signed his own death warrant. It was a blow to the underboss. This was the ultimate insult. We were actually gonna kill him right in a crowded funeral parlor, but there was too much law outside. That night, it's time to leave, and Chuckie grabs Salvie by the neck and kisses him on the lips. Smaaack...
John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood is another slice of fictionalized autobiography: a life story that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history...
...much that Neil is the sort of person who would accept a rigid hierarchy where no one can see Neil who hasn't first gone to the provost," says Bok. "The provost and the president can serve as a kind of informal team, dividing responsibilities as circumstances seem to warrant...
...person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a "prompt" ruling by a judge to determine whether the arrest was lawful. But what does "prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may be compelled to await...
...however, surgeons are trying to put the potential risks in perspective. Dr. Norman Cole of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons is referring his patients to last week's statement by the FDA, which asserts that the potential risk of these implants is "certainly too small" to warrant having them removed. Says Emory's Dr. Hester: "Women need to know that they are not walking around with time bombs in their breasts." With any luck, the final FDA report will defuse their anxiety...