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Last year two-time Oscar nominee WINONA RYDER told a reporter, "Trends are so fleeting that new clothes are a bad investment." This may help explain the inexplicable: why the Reality Bites star was charged by the Beverly Hills police department with felony grand theft last week. Police say Saks Fifth Avenue security staff captured her on video removing security sensors from clothes, jewelry and hair accessories, putting the goods into a large bag and leaving the store. Total haul: about $4,700. But it got more complicated for Ryder, 30, when police found pharmaceutical drugs...
...that evening, the case--the first officially acknowledged theft in Russia of weapons-grade uranium--was getting big play on local TV. The Russian police had reason to be proud; the rest of the world had one more reason to be nervous...
...greater outside threat created with limited key card access, these fears seem unfounded. Universal access would enable students to evade suspicious individuals as they travel through campus at night. Currently, there is universal access between 8 a.m. and 1 a.m., and there has been no great increase in theft or assault in the Houses during these hours. Allowing students to slip inside a House foyer makes far more sense from a public-safety perspective than leaving them outside to bang on the gates...
Although Harvard filed no complaints against Meinert, his identity was revealed when he was charged with theft and fraud for illegally financing a spring break trip with a friend’s Social Security number while attending George Washington University...
When Ocean’s crew finally executes the theft, it’s as slick as any I’ve ever seen, but the elements leading up to the climax captivate well before the film’s closing 30 minutes. Even though Ocean’s Eleven beats with a heart straight from a heist flick, through its veins courses much more substantial, more nuanced filmmaking. As with Traffic—though here much more subtlety—Soderbergh contrasts textures, colors and lighting in almost every scene. Damon’s introduction is filmed grainy...