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...other words, words--lots of words. But Spielberg is up to their challenge. His handling of the long courtroom scenes is wonderfully alert to unsuspected visual and dramatic possibilities. Better still, he and the screenplay (credited to David Franzoni) are alive to the--yes--sometimes humorous, and therefore humanizing, struggles of the slaves and their would-be rescuers to surmount the language and cultural barriers that separate them. In our own age, with democracy travestied by ethnic- and interest-group politicking, the most instructive thing about Amistad may lie in its demonstration that broad principle, shrewdly advanced, can find ways...
FORTUNE Business Report delivers the goods--and goodies--from the day's market action. Tonight: the dark and mysterious "Swiss interest," a bailout alert, and Coke--gasp!--loses...
...bare conference room in the Palace of Nations, waiters brought in trays of steaming coffee to help keep alert the four envoys and a lower-level representative from China. Aziz by then had Baghdad's assent to the terms in the Russian statement, Primakov told the group. Iraq would allow all the inspectors, including the Americans, to return with no restrictions on their movements. It was important that the ministers now accept the Russian document as a joint statement on what the West expected of Iraq, he argued...
Welcome to Sarajevo is painfully alert to this bitter contradiction. You read it first in Dillane's wary eyes, the weary set of his shoulders, the willed affectlessness of his voice. His Henderson is based on a real British TV journalist named Michael Nicholson, who covered 15 wars in 25 years, and the actor carries the weight of that experience, the need somehow to shift it, most affectingly...
...visit "secret," the Nieman Foundation informed its 600 alumni by form letter on July 20th that he would be one of our speakers during the reunion weekend. That The Crimson only unearthed this fact by October 7th, the day before his talk, is understandably galling to a usually alert news apparatus. But don't, please, fret about this lapse; since the reunion, like most, was oversubscribed and open only to reunioners who had paid the registration fee, we didn't try to publicize any aspect...