Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country and a little less about his party, if Jesse Helms would just get off his high horse...But the responsibility to make Washington more productive does not lie solely with the GOP. Rather than lead the Democrats back to the past, Gephardt and company must accept the potential gain of engaging in cautious cooperation with...
...have e-mailed her or left notes in her office asking for meetings many times since the end of last semester. She has either refused to respond or said that she would under no circumstances meet with us about Cardinal Health. Feeling that there was no other alternative to gain a point of leverage, we decided to engage in more public action...
...past 11 years; the five-person school board has just one Hispanic member; and only one of the district's school principals is Latino. Says David Giles, a lawyer who represents East Palo Alto's Latino parents in their battles with the district: "African Americans struggled for years to gain control of institutions here. To now see this community of immigrants come here and ask for some of the resources is threatening to them...
...breakthrough came as a Gulf War veteran turned heroin addict in the 1996 drama Courage Under Fire. In a move reminiscent of De Niro's weight gain for Raging Bull, Damon dropped 40 lbs. for a two-day scene opposite Denzel Washington. It created an anorexia-like medical condition (from which he only recently recovered), but the intensity of his performance convinced the industry that Damon was a serious actor...
This could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off. But Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral...