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...girl was carrying a transmitter monitored by law-enforcement officers. Moments after Paris left West, ostensibly to buy cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said, "and I'm not into add-water-and-stir romances." She added, "We had a date to meet his mother. I guess that...
...excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party the night...
...weapon brandished by Giuliani and other federal prosecutors is a 1970 law dubbed RICO, since it is aimed at "racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations." Under the statute, the leaders of any organization can be prosecuted when the group's members commit crimes that show a pattern of racketeering. Prosecutors do not have to prove that the leader personally committed the illegal acts, only that he supported the specific crimes in some way, such as approving them or sharing in any illegal profits...
...primal and sexual about it. A boy of 16 is allowed to join in if he is accompanied by an adult; a boy of 17 can come on his own. For an $8 entry fee, he is assured of up to $250 in bail bonding against crimes he might commit. He is required to be at the American Legion post at 7 a.m. with his horse, to be in costume and to wear a mask. One of the twelve rules he must obey is that he "shall not possess nor consume any beverage except as dispensed from the liquor wagon...
Seventeen seconds laser, Duncan again set Forty up for a 20-ft, jump shot that gave the Lions a 60-58 lend, but on the Columbia inbounds pass, Ferry was forced to commit his fourth foul of the last 45 seconds...