Word: braved
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...real: in a society where informants are everywhere and potential refugees are regularly jailed and beaten for merely seeking asylum, Clinton's "in-country processing" operation is absurd. Those who are scared enough to brave the consequences currently face at least a six-month wait before being interviewed, and in violation of international law are denied protection in the interim. ("How could we protect them?" asks a U.S. official, missing the point. "The place is a war zone.") The bottom line: according to an undisputed Americas Watch report, 14,590 Haitians have applied for asylum since Clinton took office...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-BEAR. Dante's Grin on Thursday, Oct. 21. Brave New World On Friday, Oct. 22. Ghost of an American Airman on Saturday...
...reversed by the White House. It has also become hard to assess the chances that the U.S. will dispatch 25,000 troops to help police a peace agreement in Bosnia, should one ever be reached. At present the chances are zero. It would be a supreme irony if the brave venture in Somalia winds up by effectively putting the U.S. out of the peacekeeping business. But it would be unwise to bet now against that happening...
...school kids superbly represent lower-middle-class economic desperation. And then there's Julianne Moore, whose doctor-husband (Modine) obsessively pesters her about a one-night stand she may or may not have had years ago. When she finally makes her long confession, she is half-naked -- a brave actor's choice, signaling not eroticism but vulnerability...
...will. The large ensemble (mothers and daughters at two or three ages) is evidence of Hollywood's untapped wealth of Chinese-American actresses. One warning: the typhoon of emotions makes this an eight-handkerchief movie. Bring four for the mothers, four for the daughters when they realize what brave resolve is hidden in an old woman's stern love...