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Whether studios can believe in Wilson as any kind of leading man--he'd like to branch out into dramas and romantic comedies--depends largely on the success of Behind Enemy Lines. So far, it looks promising. The film had such rousing response from test audiences that Fox, which had originally scheduled the movie for next year, is rushing it into theaters. First-time feature director John Moore and the studio initially questioned Wilson's ability to carry an action film, but Hackman--a fan since seeing him in Shanghai Noon--lobbied on Wilson's behalf. "I thought he could...
...Although two black brothers from Ohio, Moses "Fleet" Walker and Welday Walker, played briefly for Toledo of the then major American Association in 1884, blacks were subsequently barred from playing big-league ball for the next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...
Ashcroft has failed to provide a good reason for this subterfuge. The House and Senate have generally been eager to pass antiterrorism legislation in a form very similar to what the administration has desired. Indeed, the legislative branch has been almost too willing to relinquish its powers to the executive in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. So alarming has the breathtaking concentration of power in the executive branch been that the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), recently sent Ashcroft a letter...
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...narrowly missed his second upset of the tournament on Friday while facing Stanford’s Scott Lipsky in the singles consolation bracket of the Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, held in Farmers Branch...