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...Leonard Holman, Cooke Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), a pioneer in nuclear medicine best known for his work on the effects of cocaine addiction, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Newton...
...invitation of Leonard Jeffries, a professor at City University of New York and an alleged anti-Semite, to appear on campus in 1992 provoked another debate over supporting campus protest groups at the expense of Jeffries' right to express his opinions...
...Elmore Leonard doesn't spend a lot of effort word-painting backgrounds for his hard-guy capers. You know you're in Detroit or Miami or Hollywood because one of Leonard's sterling villains or slightly bent heroes tells you so. It's a jolt, nevertheless, to find that his latest thriller, Cuba Libre (Delacorte; 343 pages; $23.95), steams into Havana harbor on its first page, and that the shattered mast visible above the water is that of the U.S. battleship Maine, sunk three days earlier...
...Leonard (Get Shorty, Rum Punch) has written what could be called a historical novel. If all its characters seem so turn-of-the-millennium contemporary that you half expect one of them to pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses...
Adapted from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...