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...kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck's runaway mouth gets them in trouble, and his wit gets them...
...Digging a finger into his shirt collar)) Well, of course I'd put my arm around Bar. Only, if she's in a rubber raft somewhere off Alaska and I'm here at the White House, I don't quite see how I could . . . I mean...
Stung by criticism of lax enforcement, the SEC has been pressured into cracking down. The watchdog agency has opened a raft of investigations into cases involving corporate insiders in recent months. In one of its toughest actions to date, the SEC last October filed insider-trading charges against three top officers at Shared Medical Systems. The executives, including CEO R. James Macaleer, are accused of making false statements about Shared Medical's financial health and then selling 157,400 shares, at 35 to 4114 each, before the Malvern, Pa., company disclosed a sudden sharp decline in its earnings. The news...
...predicts that 13 states will ban abortion outright, though typically with exceptions for the so-called hard cases: when the life of the mother is at risk, the fetus is seriously deformed or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Other states are likely to be satisfied with a raft of new restrictions, such as 24-hour waiting periods and laws requiring clinics to be equipped as hospitals, which would drive up prices. Parental notification laws, already in place in 18 states, will be even more widely adopted, posing problems for many girls under 18, who at present account...
...lots to reconsider and re-examine. Literature has always played a pivotal role in defining my priorities and ideals. Beloved has been a lightpost within this confusion-it tells me what's important for Blacks, for woman, for society. It's not about hunting whales or riding a raft...