Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superb Tom Cruise). Soon after he calls on his colleagues in a sports agency to consider human values as well as the bottom line, he gets fired. Spinning his wheels wildly, he seeks moral traction in an icy-slick world, aided by his one remaining client (a testy Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his sole employee (Renee Zellweger, fierce and mousy). Blending romance and realism, writer-director Cameron Crowe achieves the kind of confident, endearing comedy you would've sworn Hollywood had lost the knack of making...
...Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business"--distributes it to his colleagues, receives a round of hypocritical applause and then gets fired. Thus is Jerry Maguire the film set in motion. Maguire leaves S.M.I. with one client, an undervalued wide receiver named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and an accountant named Dorothy Boyd (the gently winsome Renee Zellweger...
Will Clinton's new foreign policy team push the Indonesian regime to accept such concessions? When Cuba shot down two planes last April, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright furiously and stridently decried this aggression. It will be interesting to see if, as secretary of state, she speaks as passionately about the memory of 200,000 East Timorese...
...only speculate what the atheist and the anti-Marxist talked about. The Catholic teachers that schooled each of them back in the '30s? Why Castro expelled all those priests? How the Pope helped bring about the demise of Marxist Europe? More likely, they touched on the trade embargoes against Cuba, which both oppose, and the possibility of a papal visit to Castro's island, the only Latin American country His Holiness has never set foot on. It's also a safe bet the notoriously prolix Castro did most of the talking. "The Pope," Castro said afterward, "moved...
Although President Clinton should reestablish friendly relations with Cuba, as he did with Vietnam, he will probably continue the status quo. There is no lobby for ending restrictions on Cuba, while many vocal Cuban-Americans, as well as cranky and aging cold warriors such as Jesse Helms, think that Clinton is too soft on Castro...