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During the heated debate which has arisen over the North American Free Trade Agreement, the central issues have clearly been the potential loss of American jobs and decrease in American wages. The media has lavished attention on the miserably threatened Detroit blue-collar worker, the innocent U.S. orange and sugar producers who have suddenly been deprived of their prized home market shares. While everybody has taken into account the effects of an approved NAFTA on the United States, who has even considered the effects of a rejected NAFTA on Mexico...
...does enough private detective work to keep the rent paid on his crummy hotel room. Sometimes Scudder makes a point of saying that it's a nice day and that the sun is shining, but this never seems convincing. He's a night man, with a turned-up raincoat collar...
...certainly not the first time something like this had happened to me. Believe it or not, I am used to this type of treatment whether it be in northeast D.C. or in the Quad. In fact, similar situations arise everyday for Black people in America, be they blue-collar workers or Harvard graduates. Racism knows no class or educational status. Whether it entails being followed by a storekeeper, refused a ride in a taxi, or harassed by a police officer, the prejudice is real...
...sphere of expertise" has shifted towards service industries like banking and high finance. On the surface, that sounds pretty good. We don't need to create new jobs for fork lift operators or truckers because those are "bad" jobs. Instead we need to create more "good" high-paying white-collar jobs in tall office buildings. The problem is, our deficient education system continues to churn out people who are not qualified to do the "good" jobs. Consequently, there is an intense need for positions for honest, hard working people who didn't go to Harvard. And it should...
Astin's supporting cast performs decently, but unfortunately the script limits their roles as well. Ned Beatty portrays Rudy's blue-collar Irish father convincingly, but he appears only early in the movie. Charles S. Dutton, as the groundskeeper of the Notre Dame stadium, replaces Beatty in the role of Rudy's mentor. Dutton, who tends to over-act (as anyone who has seen him as "Roc" on TV knows), somewhat overdoes his part of the wise old man who has to give sage and timely advice in order to motivate young Rudy...