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A warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four...
The accident is a bad one--mother and child dead, the father hanging on by a thread. It is Chicago policewoman Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) who talks the guy through, gives him back his life.
Roll opening credits, let some time pass, and we discover a man known only as "Catch" (Jim Caviezel) roaming the city's mean streets, doing good deeds, one of which consists of saving Sharon's life during a shoot-out. You know, of course, that he is the grieving accident...
To reach out better, Chen says, he has reached in, seeking that emotional center. As examples of travails that built his character, he cites his 1986 prison stay for libel and a traffic accident--some say it was a politically motivated hit--that left his wife paralyzed.
I am amazed at the confusion in the accounts of what happened that fateful night when civilians were killed in Thanh Phong [NATION, May 7]. The stories told by former Senator Bob Kerrey and his squad mate Gerhard Klann are completely different. Klann would have us believe it was a...