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25TH HOUR. Spike Lee’s latest film isn’t much of a narrative departure from his previous efforts. Money and shattered dreams rule this story of drug dealer Monty Brogan’s (Edward Norton) last day of freedom before his seven-year jail sentence begins. The final act packs a phenomonal punch, but its dealer-with-a-heart-of-gold premise is predictable and derivative, typical of Lee’s long-time filmic obsession with the soft side of seemingly reprehensible humanity. 25th Hour screens...
...signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law last January, President Bush stood beside Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy in a public-school gymnasium and boasted of a bipartisan coup. "You're seeing government at its best," said Bush of the historic education legislation. "We figured out how to put our parties aside and focus on what's right for the American children." A year later, that focus is faltering. Kennedy, a prime sponsor of the bill, boycotted the East Room ceremony marking the law's anniversary because of a lack of resources for the legislation. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential hopefuls...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) blasted the White House’s stance on war with Iraq as “chip-on-the-shoulder foreign policy,” Friday in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
Bush has quietly reinstated a tradition dating back to Woodrow Wilson that his father had halted in 1990. The elder Bush was weary of infighting among various Confederacy groups, so his White House quit participating altogether. The current Bush White House denies any change in policy. But John Edward Hurley, head of the Confederate Memorial Association in Washington, says, "No one saw a wreath from 1990 until George W. Bush got elected," and other participants in the annual event support his account...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) blasted the White House’s stance on war with Iraq as “chip-on-the-shoulder foreign policy,” Friday in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...