Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late '50s psychodrama with more precision than it has any right to. The music alone, a collection of some of the coolest cool-cat classics of the period, captures that legendary moment when you were more likely to spot Chet Baker in a Naples jazz club than an upstate prison sickroom. The movie probably won't make any top-ten lists this winter--it's good, but it's not quite that deep--but I'll be damned if it doesn't have the wittiest opening credit sequence of the year. It's a not-so-subtle allusion...
...Jersey, he defends a friend against a white pedophile and is unjustly sent to a correction home by a sinister police officer, Depalowski (Dan Hedaya). Escaping from the home, he makes it good as an army officer until Depalowski, hell-bent on persecuting Carter, sends him back to prison. Upon release, he becomes a famous boxer but is framed by Depalowski again, this time for killing three white people in a bar. He proceeds to spend the next 19 years in prison. So this reviewer sits back and waits for a movie about American racial politics to unfold. But wait...
...connection with the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He has been held for the past year in solitary confinement in the Manhattan Correctional Facility, awaiting a trial set for Sept. 2000. The government justified the defendant's isolation, saying terrorist attacks can be planned from prison...
...last case that dealt with the issue of pre-trial solitary confinement, it had already been proven that the defendant was guilty of committing crimes from within prison. Because the government has no proof that el-Hage would be a genuine security threat from within prison, el-Hage's solitary confinement was unjustified, said Joshua L. Dratel, one of the defending lawyers...
Considering they could spend as many as five years in prison for their deception, Aziz-Golshani and Melamed will probably think twice before trying this money-making scheme again. But, as SEC officials and law enforcement agencies know, there are plenty of other opportunists who'd be happy to take their place. In these heady days of prosperity and a ballooning stock market, measured, critical financial reasoning strikes some people as cynical and potentially disastrous. (He who hesitates is lost - and loses out on that IPO.) That pervasive air of recklessness, combined with the infinite information available to investors, renders...