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While Chavis was a primary focus, the special, closed-door session was as much about the future purpose of the 85-year-old civil-rights organization. The N.A.A.C.P. is saddled with a budget deficit of between $3 million and $4 million. Earlier last week the Ford Foundation, a longtime supporter, froze the first half of a two-year $500,000 grant because of concerns about the organization's management. Several N.A.A.C.P. chapters have suspended dues payments for essentially the same reason. Meanwhile, even as other civil- rights organizations have reshaped their agendas, the N.A.A.C.P. flounders in histrionics and glitzy...
...Speed," you'll think your on just that. Keanu Reeves makes his actionflick debut and was heralded by many, unexpectedly, as incredible. Perhaps Keanu has finally found his true calling. Harrison Ford, look out, because there's someone leaner going for your...
Which brings us to Ford's latest megaplex enterprise, "Clear and Present Danger." While a bit long, this Tom Clancy adaptation is the most intellectually intriguing of the series...
...Jack, played by Harrison Ford, will ultimately testify before a Senate committee, it all starts with a President and his men deciding to insert a small guerrilla force into Colombia to hit one of the cocaine cartels. This is done in deep secrecy, and among those left out of the loop is Jack. After escaping an ambush, he learns that the men in suits are selling out the troops in the field and even trying to do a deal with one of the drug lords...
This is the third movie with Jack as its hero, so he is a known quantity -- a humanist spook with an overdeveloped moral sense -- but Ford, playing the part for the second time, knows how to keep his earnestness fresh. Meanwhile, Donald Moffat's President is tough and unctuous, his National Security Adviser (Harris Yulin) is tough and tense, and his chief aide (Henry Czerny) is tough and tough...