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...boot camp of hell, and a sensitive man could die from it. "You don't belong in the Nam, man," a warwise soldier tells Chris (Charlie Sheen), who stands in for Stone as the narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy...
Cabrini-Green was not always an urban version of hell. The project was originally intended as a way station for working-class families, both black and white, who were temporarily down on their luck. Since the first set of 55 row houses was built in 1943, however, the character of the urban poor has changed, and the 23 high-rises along Division Street have become permanent homes for generations of the black underclass. There are few intact families among the 15,000 residents of the project. Only about 150 husbands have their names on leases. Single mothers like Diana, whose...
...objective standards, Chavez is still not Castro. Says one Chavez official, "We're a hell of a long way from a [Castro-style] regime." Chavez gushingly admires and subsidizes Castro. But many officials in Caracas, especially younger ones, wince when you equate the two. They insist their democratically elected commandante is hardly poised to snuff out free speech and free enterprise or stoke armed revolution abroad. Chavez may control the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, but they believe he can't afford to squander a more valuable commodity - his democratic legitimacy, something Castro never had and which gives Chavez...
...Cuban airliner as it left Venezuela. Chavez has pointed to the U.S.'s failure to prosecute Posada as evidence of Washington's double standard on terrorism. That charge could ebb if Bush puts Posada away - just as Chavez's anti-U.S. harangues have slowed ("Go to hell, gringos!" is actually subdued for Hugo) since the State Department said last month it was seeking "a positive, constructive relationship" in Chavez's new term...
...showered praise on the president's recently announced plans to nationalize entire sectors of the economy, pass laws by decree without legislative approval and take away the autonomy of the Central Bank. Disapproval from abroad is even less tolerated, especially from Washington - Chavez told the U.S. to "go to hell" on Sunday after a state department spokesman said the reforms caused concern. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Chavez's tightened grip on the economy should overlap with the exit of possibly the only government economist left willing to criticize...