Prices are Effective

Dave Shulman
8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, through 11 p.m. Tuesday, August 4, 1998. Boneless skinless chicken breasts Randall Farms Moist & Tender 1.99 lb. limit 2. You can depend on us for all your floral needs! A "slice" of savings on your favorite pies. One bite of our California Brand Beef......

Whitewater West gets public airing

David Cogan
Fully four years after the scheme was hatched and more than a year after the city controller released a damning report on the affair, the Riordan-administration scandal dubbed "Whitewater West" finally got a public airing last week at a hearing before the City Council's Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee......

Cannabis Connection

Michael Simmons
Escalating its drive against California's medical-marijuana movement, the Clinton administration last week indicted nine Southern California residents on charges of conspiracy to grow over 6,000 marijuana plants at four separate sites, with intent to distribute. The nine-count indictment arises from an almost yearlong investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)......

De Palma

Manohla Dargis
For the first 14 minutes or so of Brian De Palma's new movie, Snake Eyes, the camera swoops uninterrupted through a cavernous boxing arena, rushing through hallways and darting around corners as it tracks Nicolas Cage like a heat-seeking missile - it's a sensational opening hand. Cage, playing a mercenary......

Pi in the Sky

Paul Malcolm
"An old girlfriend of mine told me that all my films were about a search for God," says writer-director Darren Aronofsky. "It was about a week before she dumped me." A few weeks back, though, as the 29-year-old sat in the outdoor cafe at the Sunset Marquis Hotel discussing his......

Night of the Long Knives

Steven Mikulan
It's been 20 years since the release of John Carpenter's Halloween: the film that made us reconsider the American kitchen as something more than the repository of milk and cookies and, instead, as an armory of Ginsu knives. That movie and its clones introduced to mainstream films the now-dominant Red......

The Fat Man Sings

Greg Critser
Nearly All Americans Will One Day Be Overweight, Researchers Predict.-Associated Press headline,May 29, 1998 May 1, 1998: My doctor tells me - without me asking - that "maybe I should think" about a new obesity drug. Name: Meridia. "They're not hyping it like they did Redux," he says. "It's maybe......

The Fat Man Sings

Greg Critser
I hold my own out in front of me. My wrists are thin, a reminder of more slender times, but my forearms - they're meaty. They remind me not of thinner times but, rather, of how much the human arm can resemble the shank of a lamb, or cow or......

Floyd Abrams and David Kohler for CNN

Floyd Abrams and David Kohler
Although the broadcast was prepared after exhaustive research, was rooted in considerable supportive data, and reflected the deeply held beliefs of the CNN journalists who prepared it, CNN's conclusion that United States troops used nerve gas during the Vietnamese conflict on a mission in Laos designed to kill American defectors......

Ill Wind

Editor
On June 7, in the inaugural broadcast of CNN's NewsStand, in a segment called "Valley of Death," CNN's chief Pentagon correspondent, Peter Arnett, reported that in the Vietnam War, during an operation known as Tailwind, U.S. troops used sarin nerve gas to hunt down and kill American defectors in Laos......