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...BOTTOM LINE: Eastwood has a battle of wits with a brilliant assassin...
...hero, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger). "We're perfect buddy-movie material," the boy tells his reluctant new partner. "I'll teach you to be voluble. You'll teach me to be brave." Having seen part of the picture, Danny knows that Jack is in peril from a bull's-eye assassin (Charles Dance). There's a lot that Jack, poor simple muscle-bound dear, doesn't know -- including that he's a fictional character. When he chases the assassin out of movieland into the "real" world, he finds that other rules apply. Heroes get hurt. People could...
Colombo city employees dismantle a cutout billboard of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa displayed during May Day festivities at which the 68- year-old Premadasa was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin who detonated explosives strapped to his body. The bomber who killed the President and 23 others was identified last week as a Tamil militant who had ingratiated himself with the President's staff...
...also avoided overseas travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should he leave the island. The precaution was in vain. Last Saturday, while officiating at a festive May Day parade in Colombo, the 68-year-old President of low-caste birth was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin laden with explosives. At least 15 bystanders were also killed in this latest outbreak of political violence that has convulsed India's once placid offshore neighbor with insurgency and separatist warfare over the past decade. In Sri Lanka, curses today have a way of coming home...
Judging pro-life activism by the actions of its most violent adherents is about as justified as judging Christianity by David Koresh. Even Randall Terry, head of the controversial Operation Rescue organization, was not condoning Gunn's assassin so much as pointing out a perceived hypocrisy when he noted that those who were outraged at Gunn's murder had condoned the murder of the fetuses he aborted...