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Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano), the son of the world’s two greatest superheroes, The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), has a lot to live up to as he enters his first day at Sky High. It’s here that he’ll be thrown into one of two castes: Hero or Sidekick. “If life were suddenly to get fair,” Will tells his friend Layla as she describes the problems of the system, “I doubt it would happen in high school...
...from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that doesn't want to be spoken for," he says. "I'm an introvert...
WORLD: Western Europe begins to close ranks against Libya's Gaddafi 28 Increasingly determined to act against terrorism, West European countries start kicking out Libyan diplomats and students. Kurt Waldheim's wartime record dogs him into the closing days of the Austrian presidential campaign. South Africa rescinds pass laws for blacks. The Duchess of Windsor, the American who won a British King's love and cost him his throne, dies...
Speaking before television cameras in Vienna's ornate Hofburg Palace, Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlger was at pains to select his words carefully. His aim: to render a balanced judgment for his 7 million countrymen about accusations that Presidential Candidate Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, had knowingly falsified his World War II record and was involved in Nazi atrocities...
...days before the May 4 presidential election, Kirchschlger's cautious assessment did little to clarify matters for the 20% of Austrian voters who, according to private polls, are still undecided about the Waldheim affair. Both Waldheim, the standard-bearer of the conservative People's Party, and Socialist Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After...