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...gets seamless ensemble work from the year's most agreeable, most cannily chosen cast. These, after all, are not-quite stars playing not-quite supermen. They grow in the roles as they grow comfortable in them. By the end they have cobbled together an A-minus comedy about B-plus people. Every other action picture is about the impossibly outsize Them; this one is about the just barely heroic Us. It's about making the best of your small talents--about looking in the mirror and, despite all evidence to the contrary, smiling back...
...minus two minutes and counting!" bellows a counselor...
Devotion to sports on any level undermines humanity. George Orwell said it best: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." VINCENT GUGLIUZZA Towson...
...Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright followed up her historic April contempt of court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus $1,202, which will go to the court to reimburse its own costs ? will be split between Jones and her attorneys for the expenses they incurred as a result of the President?s failure to testify truthfully...
During all other seasons of the year, this circle of friends would be almost entirely out of touch, minus the occasional e-mail forward or chain letter. Come summer, however, we would come together most naturally and go to every movie showing in the theaters, have long conversations on the phone, go on crazed shopping trips, plus all the other regular summer bonding experiences. Our times together are always memorable. It was with these friends that we all felt most comfortable, as it was senseless trying to act mature when we were surrounded by people who have seen...