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...nation's biggest terrorism trial opened in a Manhattan courtroom as prosecutors began making their case against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other Muslim men who are accused of having plotted to blow up key New York City landmarks in 1993 as part of an alleged holy war against...
Higher Learning is the desperately confused response to all these pressures. It finds on a single college campus every imaginable youthful type: a track star on an athletic scholarship (Omar Epps), who is convinced he is being exploited; his very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube...
Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of the U.S. contingent, watched through his binoculars. He feared that "our forces had suffered an irreversible catastrophe" and considered holding back the reinforcements headed for Omaha. That could have spelled disaster for the whole invasion if the Germans had attacked Omaha Beach in force. Then at 1:30 p.m. Bradley received a radio message that the Americans were inching up the bluffs. Another wave of troops rushed in to bolster those on the shore. Said Bradley later: "Every man who set foot on Omaha Beach that day was a hero...
...famous remark during the Korean War, General Omar Bradley warned that expanding that conflict into China would create "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Bradley's advice was heeded, and he went on to glory. The course of today's economy will determine whether the Fed's offensive against inflation gives stature to its critics...
Likewise, the characters are tolerable but do not elicit much empathy from the audience. Before they can really come together as a team, each player must exorcise his own demon. Tom Berenger is Jake Taylon, the arthritic catcher who must deal with retirement; Omar Epps is Willie Mays Hayes who has forsaken baseball for Hollywood glitz: Charlie Sheen reprises his role as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, the sport's bad boy who has traded in his Harley for Armani suits, a therapist, and cheesy cereal commercials. They have their requisite moments of epiphany, laughter, and tears. The peripheral characters help...