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...under the age of 16. "This decision provides a very easy segue for defense attorneys to argue that anyone younger than 16 is not functioning at full adult capacity," Belsky says, and therefore they are, by definition, mentally challenged. That defense, predicts Belsky, is going to be tough to pull off - but that won't stop defense attorneys from trying...
...have made more in a less crowded season. A small art film can turn a profit in a few theaters, while more expensive films intended as counterprogramming must compete with blockbusters for a wider audience. Universal plans to keep About a Boy on select screens throughout the summer and pull it up to a $40 million gross by "constantly monitoring the marketplace and conditions," says Universal's vice chairman Mark Shmuger. With movies like About a Boy, this summer's marketplace has become a lot richer, especially for the ones buying tickets...
...reminding people, in the age of Shaq and Kobe, that the person who can make things happen is the one who brings the ball up the court. Against the Celtics, Kidd averaged a triple double (double figures in points, rebounds and assists); the only other players ever to pull that off in a conference finals were Wilt Chamberlain (1967) and Magic Johnson...
...three-day security conference (Scowcroft had been invited to attend the same meeting as a delegate). The accommodations were cozy: Scowcroft was the sole private citizen to spend the long flight in Wolfowitz's private quarters. Some speculated that Scowcroft got the invite because Wolfowitz wanted to pull him into his corner. "Paul wants to reach out to more Republicans like Scowcroft and get them to think his way on the danger Saddam represents," said a Wolfowitz associate. "He's tired of getting picked on by the Powell crowd." Scowcroft seemed unaware of any lobbying effort. "I'm just hitching...
...furious brawler whose forward progress has been interrupted only by Buster Douglas and Evander Holyfield and the Indiana authorities who remanded him to prison for three years in the mid-?90s on a rape conviction. Nobody wants to admit that we will be watching the fight like we cannot pull ourselves away from train wrecks and car crashes - if Tyson is a man-made disaster, we want to witness the devastation. Tyson himself cannot say whether he will control himself. He predicts a K.O. within three rounds...