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...since then his reaction to charges of police brutality has grown more strident. The irony is that police killings of civilians are down dramatically from what they were during the administration of his Democratic predecessor, David Dinkins. But Dinkins would go around with a long, sorrowful face that deflected blame, while Giuliani lashes out and invites it. Fred Siegel, a history professor at Cooper Union, says Giuliani needs a strong person who could stand up to him and say, "You're right, police killings are at a record low. But shut up--and express sympathy...
...Justice Department embarking on a wild-goose chase to satisfy a tragically deluded family, this is it. The farce began when King's family came under Pepper's bamboozling spell. He convinced them that Ray, the convicted assassin, was just a fall guy set up to take the blame for an intricate plot that encompassed, among others, Lyndon Johnson's White House, the Pentagon, the Mafia, the Memphis police and a mysterious figure named Raoul. Key parts of the story soon collapsed--for example, the leader of an Army sharpshooting team who Pepper said had been killed to keep...
Along with habitual Oscar performers Randy Newman and Phil Collins, keep your eyes and ears open for another vocal talent at this year's awards show. ROBIN WILLIAMS has been tapped for a live performance of Best Original Song nominee Blame Canada--the profanity-sprinkled Canuck-baiting ditty from the animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Oscar producers have yet to announce how they'll censor such lyrics as "Blame Canada with all their hockey hullabaloo/ and that b____ Anne Murray too," but Williams' history of antic unpredictability could make any decision moot. It may not erase the memories...
Ultimately, Wonderland disturbs not because it is violent or loud--though it can border on pathos--but because, unlike crime or injury, its subject defies easy blame and explanation. But creator Peter Berg (Very Bad Things) balances its starkness with writing of remarkable empathy. As Banger says at his custody hearing, "I have a tremendous respect for [my children's] minds, for the beauty of their minds." Wonderland has a tremendous respect for its audience's minds, and for the beauty of even a shattered psyche...
...agency is under enormous pressure from Congress and the public, says Gorman. "The FDA is expected to perform incredibly quickly - but not so quickly that they arouse suspicion," she says. They are also chronically understaffed and underfunded, she adds. So while the public's first instinct may be to blame the FDA for the apparent weaknesses in its approval process, perhaps the scrutiny would be better directed toward the congressional leaders holding the purse strings - and the means to more thorough regulation...