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...before our heroes have mercilessly tweaked, mocked, scorned and generally reduced Don Rafael to largely impotent rage. And just when he was on the brink of stealing all the gold in the state and setting himself up as ruler of an independent empire. Director Martin Campbell doesn't quite know when to stop. At some point the number of hairbreadth assaults and escapes approaches the tiresome. But they're all well choreographed, and since the good-natured conviction of all concerned with Zorro never flags, we are carried blithely along on their journey...
...course we can't know for sure, but there are clues in each of these four places, common denominators among five boys headed toward the brink. It's now possible to try to reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way. Mississippi has made murder on school property a capital crime, and Oregon may begin requiring a 72-hour holding period for kids who bring guns to school, as Kinkel did the day before the shooting. Members of Congress are pushing a bill that would crack down on dealers who sell firearms...
...happen that one of the decade's most ambitious pieces of legislation, which had so defied the odds that it seemed on the brink of passing, could have died so suddenly last week? McCain's landmark tobacco bill would have raised at least $516 billion over the next 25 years from higher cigarette taxes while increasing regulation, capping liability and fighting teen smoking. President Clinton was staking the finale of his presidency on moving the bill--not to mention the $65.5 billion worth of education and health programs in his budget that were pegged to new revenues. A majority...
Imagine being on the brink of stardom, but after your first big Hollywood premiere, you and your date are escorted out the back door. Imagine landing a role opposite Harrison Ford--the No. 1 box-office draw in the world--but your manager says the new "love of your life" may cost you the juicy part. Imagine--miracle of miracles!--that you get the lead anyway, but the studio hits the roof when rumors spread that you're pregnant with this new love. Now imagine that a $70 million investment rides on your performance--and on your love life...
Season highlights included solid, back-to-back, three-goal wins over traditional ECAC powers Providence and Cornell. And after advancing to the Beanpot Championship with a sound defeat of Boston College, Harvard took second-ranked Northeastern to the brink, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period before finally losing the `Pot to the Huskies by a slim 5-4 margin...