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...just sass. The movie is really about the ghetto epidemic of drugs, an issue Lee has dodged until now. Less than a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, this is a Guess Who's Going to Hell, because Jungle Fever locates its primal power in Felliniesque scenes of Harlem crack palaces and epochal confrontations between the drug-addicted and the drug-inflicted. The essential action is not horizontal (mating games across color lines) but vertical (poisoning the family tree, pitting father against son). Who is sleeping with whom matters less here, as it should anywhere, than the people...
...Bush, who tends his public persona more carefully than it often seems, this is a startling departure. Until recently, he routinely skipped over highly emotional lines in speeches out of fear that his voice would crack and he would lose his composure. As he told reporters after the Atlanta speech, he's now willing to take that risk. "That...
...hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars to shoot defenseless exotic animals at point-blank range. There is no accurate count of the number of such killings, but authorities are finally beginning to crack down on them...
...spring from trying to absorb huge influxes of new people. As residents of fast-growing Western cities contemplate the noxious haze descending on their skylines, the cookie-cutter subdivisions springing up on previously untrammeled hillsides and in pristine deserts, the freeway-choking traffic jams and the youth gangs dealing crack on their street corners, they fear that L.A.'s present could be their future, and the prospect throws them. When people in San Diego conjure up a Boschian vision of a solid urban corridor stretching 130 miles from Los Angeles south to the Mexican border, they call their nightmare...
...48th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Georgia National Guard appears to exemplify all that can go wrong with the Total Force policy. Some $40 million a year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...