Word: hutchison
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...officials may be a concession to domestic political concerns. The canal once symbolized America's ability to project its power abroad, and conservative Republicans have questioned the wisdom of giving it up. Some Republican legislators - and Pat Buchanan - have even used the fact that Hong Kong-based port company Hutchison Whampoa will manage the facility for Panama to suggest that the strategic waterway may fall under Chinese control in the event of a crisis. Even though that scenario is dismissed as far-fetched by Panamanians and most U.S. analysts, the White House is clearly taking no chances with Al Gore...
...head makes electrocution seem a sacrament: baptism and extreme unction in a single dab. The healing scenes will evoke tears, some of them earned. And there's a lot of sharp acting, led by Hanks' pained restraint. The two villains are vigorously portrayed: a sadistic, craven guard (Doug Hutchison) and a strutting, rabid inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that breathed so easily in Shawshank is often forced here. Grandstanding reaction shots...
...Morse (Contact), who plays Brutus Howell, Edgecomb's friend and another sympathetic guard; James Cromwell (Babe), who fills the role of Warden Hal Moores; and Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump), who briefly appears as John Coffey's public defender. The antagonists are a cruel prison guard named Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) and an insane killer known as Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell...
...canal to Panama by the end of this year. But that has some U.S. hawks worried. Both Buchanan and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott have cited a Chinese threat in the isthmus, based on the fact that the company contracted to operate the canal is Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which they assert has links to the Chinese military. But Lott's warning in August that "U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage by Hutchison" and Buchanan's charge last week that the transfer compromises national security...
...this move would come at the same time that other money is being spent for wealthier, more powerful constituencies: Senate majority leader Trent Lott is currently attempting to secure $500 million for an extra aircraft carrier to be built in his home state of Mississippi, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) has just passed an amendment to save the oil industry $66 million a year in royalties owed to the public...