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...film cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah in jail and becomes a minister of the Black Muslim faith under the sect's founder, Elijah Muhammad. In the '60s, with the encouragement...
...Mary's did not score its first hoop until more than four minutes into the game on a three point shot by guard Richard Sullivan. Its potent offense could not tally again until 11:40 in the first half, cutting Harvard's lead to a mere...
...Providence seems to be getting in on the action with a potent line of its own. This one doesn't have a cute name, but it certainly has the talent...
Harvard's biggest strength, no doubt, is whereit has always been: its forwards. This year's teamfeatures a bevy of speedy, skilled wings andcenters, with talented members on each of the fourlines. Even the fourth, err, green line featuressome potent scores: junior Chris Baird, a highlytouted recruit his freshman year who looksprepared to make his big break through; andfreshman Jason Karmonos, who tallied twice againstDalhousie in an exhibition game...
Vietnam was a battle in the cold war -- the wrong battle in the right war, which is why the U.S. lost the one and won the other. America's lingering bitterness over that regional defeat sometimes seems more potent than its satisfaction over the recent global victory. In this campaign there has been more recrimination over Vietnam than self-congratulation over the end of the Soviet empire...