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...conscripted into the South African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain-killers and rat poison. He survived. He returned to the S.A.D.F...
These plot distinctions make this film more intellectually stimulating than "Patriot Games." It also removes the xenophobic malaise which over rode the entirety of the former blockbuster and replaces it with a cynical, probably more truthful look into the Washington political machine. Instead of bad guys breaking into his house, trespassing on the home and family Ryan has tried so hard to maintain, here we have Ryan confronting the drug lords in a tete a tete which would make any undercover CIA person scared to his bones...
...route to New York City from Los Angeles with CBS entertainment president Howard Stringer and others, father and son hastily arranged to meet the plane at an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. Diller alighted and read their letter. Then he canceled plans for a dinner with CBS executives and rode back to Manhattan with the Robertses...
...further behind in their work. More than a quarter are held back a grade; about a third fail to graduate from high school. ADHD kids are also prone to accidents, says neurologist Roseman. "These are the kids I'm going to see in the emergency room this summer. They rode their bicycle right into the street and didn't look. They jumped off the deck and forgot it was high...
Wakefield Dort Jr. '44 even rode this bicyclefrom Cambridge to her home in the Boston suburb ofMelrose in order...