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Curtis Gates goes through spells of unemployment, but finally gets a job from his brother's private sponsors who own Encyclopedia Britannica. As we watch family dynamics, the movie yet again reveale the tribulations of inner-city life in the heroic, if resigned, strength of the mothers and the conspicuous absences and non-committal waverings of the fathers...
...fact, he took credit for the world record in an autobiography he submitted for the World Bridge Encyclopedia in 1991--more than seven years after Guinness withdrew the record...
Cole's name does not appear on the American Contract Bridge League's official lists of champions for any of the 13 national bridge events. In a 1991 application for entry into the Bridge Encyclopedia, Cole himself acknowledged that he had no world championships and no national championships (aside from a 1990 collegiate title won while he was a graduate student member of the Harvard Bridge Club...
...example, in his entry in the encyclopedia of bridge, Cole claimed that he founded the Harvard Bridge Team in 1985. But according to bridge community sources, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and newspaper clippings on file in the University archives, the Harvard Bridge Club has fielded teams in intercollegiate competitions since the 1950s...
...Justice Ministry is vowing to open old files that could compel Carlos to stand trial at least four times. Meanwhile, Berlin's attorney general is threatening to seek extradition for a 1983 bombing. In the Middle East, Arabs are bracing for shocking disclosures, since Carlos is "a walking encyclopedia of terrorism," says investigating magistrate Bruguiere. An East European diplomat in Beirut admits that "a lot of people would like him to have a heart attack very quickly in his French prison. If he talks, it will create scandals all over the world...