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TEXAS RANGERS Directed by Steve Miner Starring James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott AUGUST...
DIED. CARL ALBERT, 91, Oklahoma Democrat and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1971 to '77; in McAlester, Okla. A coal miner's son, he represented Oklahoma's Third District for 30 years until retiring in 1977 and twice stood a heartbeat away from the presidency. A pragmatist, he said, "I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy...
...willingness to settle for less than the big dream. (At least, that's what they say on camera. The Brits have such lovely manners, don't they?) A few have lived abroad, but all remain captives of a society still largely defined by class. Apted, whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family...
...feelings about this decline in the prestige of the Crown are ambivalent. When I was a little kid my father explained that the surname Jenkins--unusual in a Hispanic country like Costa Rica--was the legacy of an old English miner who had migrated to Central America in the late nineteenth century. Right then and there I became a fierce Anglophile...
Rimmed by steep ridges and mountain shanties, the hamlet of Keystone, W. Va. (pop. 627), looks like a movie set left over from Coal Miner's Daughter. Main Street, all four blocks of it, has not a single traffic light. Yet the local bank in recent years has boasted one of the highest profit margins in the U.S., and reached $1 billion in assets in 1998. You might wonder how such a bank could thrive in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. And you'd be in good company, because bank examiners and the FBI wondered...