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Ocean’s Eleven is a film that does not deserve a remake. The 1960 original featured the Rat Pack and an extended rodent family in a plot to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one New Year’s Eve heist. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and company used the production as a vehicle to continue on the screen what was their mantra in real life: boozing, gambling and chasing women. Juvenile, meandering and amateurish to a fault, the original film contained so few redemptive elements that only the most dedicated of audiences...
Gone are the threadbare plot and misogynist overtones, and in their place lies a taut caper tale with Soderbergh at the top of his game. George Clooney reprises the role of Danny Ocean, a con-man just out of a New Jersey jail, who assembles a crew of 10 other men (hence Ocean’s Eleven) to steal $160 million from an impenetrably fortified vault holding cash reserves from the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos. Ocean runs the show, bringing in card-sharp Dusty (Brad Pitt), impersonator Saul (Carl Reiner) and pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), among...
Harvard announced last night that it bought a 120-housing unit project on the old Polaroid plot in Cambridgeport, provoking sharp criticism from local activists who said they had fought developers to win a housing contract on that plot for city residents...
...plan for the old Polaroid plot had contained a 577-car garage, which residents protested would bring excess traffic. Six local activists, calling themselves the Cambridge Neighborhood Initiative, sued the plot’s developers to protest the garage plan. In 1999 Polaroid and Spaulding & Slye Colliers announced a plan to build three residential buildings instead of a garage...
...threshold of evidence needed for conversations to be monitored at all. Rather than the probable cause required by the 4th Amendment, the attorney general need merely “certify” that the person in custody might be attempting to communicate to others about a future terrorist plot. Similarly weak grounds would suffice for a prosecutor to listen to the recordings and use them as a basis for a fishing expedition into the possible wrongdoings of the person in custody and anybody implicated in the conversations...