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...nearby Camp Lejeune have left, with 3,000 more scheduled for deployment. War may be not much more than a bar argument where you live, but here it's a bucket of ice water in the face. At the base theater, 600 Marines pack the joint but not because Catch Me If You Can is playing. They're working on their wills Moonie-style under the direction of a base attorney. One wants Over the Rainbow played at his funeral. Another wills all 50 guys in his company $10 each. His savings just barely cover...
...warfare between abolitionists and slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses and burned the rare biracial schools...
...CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman?...
Transaction completed, Howe made it to the airport just in time to catch the flight to Bermuda...
...buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels featuring words such as "White Family Potato Noodles" onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't seem to catch a break in his efforts to take his firm to a higher level...