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...possible to outthink the enemy. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt urging the making of a uranium bomb, and soon a coterie of can-do intellectuals convened at Los Alamos to become the new cowboys of war machinery. Presidents have relied on eggheads ever since: Einstein begat Kissinger begat Rubin, Reich and Greenspan...
...Maybe Rubin Carter was a hurricane in the ring, but the movie version of his story--the middleweight contender who was framed on murder charges based on racism--downgrades him to a tropical storm. In Washington's finely shaded performance he's a low-pressure system, illuminated by distant flashes of lightning...
When the movie begins, it is America in the 1960's, and the ugly realities of racial politics are flaring up all over again. Rubin Carter, played by Denzel Washington, is a poor black boy made good as a professional boxer, "Hurricane" Carter. As a street urchin growing up in racist New Jersey, he defends a friend against a white pedophile and is unjustly sent to a correction home by a sinister police officer, Depalowski (Dan Hedaya). Escaping from the home, he makes it good as an army officer until Depalowski, hell-bent on persecuting Carter, sends him back...
...Resnick John T. Reuland Spencer G. Rhodes Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Emily A. Rippe Paula C. Ro Ann S. Robinson Julie A. Roden Jocelyn M. Rodgers Elizabeth H. Roemer Nicholas W. Rose Eric S. Rosen Laura E. Rosenbaum Brian J. Rosenthal David E. Rosow Caroline A. Rothert Marina B. Rubin Roee E. Rubinstein Ismail G. Ruiz Robyn Sackeyfio Daniel K. Salomon Saloni K. Saraiya Claudio A. Sauer Maureen K. Schad Kristi L. Schaeffer Ryan G. Schaffer Robert E. Schlesinger Vanessa A. Schlueter Alexandra V. Schmitz Robert S. Schwartz Wendy A. Seider Maya Sen Alexander B. Sevy Jeloni Shabazz Melina E. Shannon...
...that they are not overtly focused on chart topping. "Follow your heart/And not mankind," Q-Tip raps on Do It, See It, Be It. Eclecticism is seen as a virtue. The Roots is working on a cover of Bob Dylan's 1976 song Hurricane, a protest anthem about Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black boxer sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit. The song is scheduled to appear on the sound track to the Denzel Washington film The Hurricane. Mos Def is also contributing material to the album...