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There is something inherently democratizing -- perhaps even revolutionary -- about the technology. Not only has it enfranchised thousands of would-be writers who otherwise might never have taken up the craft, but it has also thrown together classes of people who hadn't had much direct contact before: students, scientists, senior citizens, computer geeks, grass-roots (and often blue-collar) bulletin-board enthusiasts and most recently the working press...
...continued their rounds. "What kind of people have we become?" asked another woman. Such scenes fill Muscovites with a sense of dazed anguish, partly because in the past any castoffs of the socialist state foolish enough to make a public appearance were either deported from the city or thrown into psychiatric prisons...
...city's noviye bogati, or nouveaux riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize Moscow's Volvo and Mercedes dealerships, pamper themselves with Estee Lauder "exclusive skin-care consultations" and blithely plunk down the equivalent of an average worker's monthly pay for French champagne and Danish liqueur candies at the gilded- mirror displays in Yeliseyevsky Gatronom, the grande dame of Moscow supermarkets...
...none of it can compare with the lesson prosecutors have had to accept -- that it's possible to play to the court of public opinion so strenuously that you lose the courts of law. On Friday Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded that some jurors may have been tainted...
...should he run into on his way over but Laura. In what the struggle which ensues, Stewart attempts to rape Laura while Will bounces off the walls of the stall. Shot in slow motion, director Mike Nichols turns this struggle into an animalistic fight with Laura being thrown on the ground, scratched and hit and eventually thrown up against one of the walls of the barn. It's brutal. It's frightening. And anyone who has a hard time watching intense sexual violence (i.e. this reviewer), should beware. In the end, Will rips off his protective medallion and jumps over...