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Commander Scott Waddle was in his private hell. His submarine, the U.S.S. Greeneville, had sunk a Japanese fishing vessel off Hawaii, killing nine people. His career in the Navy was over. He was potentially facing a court-martial. His lawyer had told him to remain silent. And still Waddle decided to stand up last week and testify at the Navy's court of inquiry into the accident. "This court needs to hear from me. It is the right thing to do," said Waddle...
...summer's Tomb Raider, with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. Consider, and savor, the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the all-time top-grossing foreign-language film that was set to hit the $100 million mark at the North American box office last weekend. Ang Lee's martial arts fantasy features two strong women, a 30ish warrior (Michelle Yeoh) and a willful teen (Zhang Ziyi) just discovering to what uses, good or ill, she may put her powers of physical levitation and female cunning...
Those who know Bush paint a complex portrait of her. She idolized pacifists like King but studied martial arts and had once practiced her shot at the firing range with her father. She made fast friends with the outcasts at school yet wanted nothing more than to be accepted by Marchese, the cheerleading captain who ran with the cool crowd. "She has a kind heart," says her mother Catherine. "In school she made friends with a girl in a wheelchair and helped her out. She would always put herself between those who were being picked on" and their tormentors...
...summer's "Tomb Raider," with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. Consider, and savor, the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the all-time top-grossing foreign-language film that was set to hit the $100 million mark at the North American box office last weekend. Ang Lee's martial arts fantasy features two strong women, a 30ish warrior (Michelle Yeoh) and a willful teen (Zhang Ziyi) just discovering to what uses, good or ill, she may put her powers of physical levitation and female cunning...
...Sampit As a wave of ethnic violence that claimed at least 469 lives in Borneo came to an end, Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri comforted victims and indicated that declaration of a civil emergency-a step short of martial law-was not required. After 10 days of attacks on Madurese settlers by Borneo's native Dayaks, security forces brought the conflict to an end. The Dayaks have long sought to drive out the Madurese, contending that they were taking Dayak jobs and land...