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Exactly 215 years ago this week, some subjects of Britain's King George III adopted a Declaration of Independence that asserted the necessity for a sovereign and free United States of America. The ground moved under that hall in steamy, summertime Philadelphia; an idea was proclaimed that would shake and reshape the world. Yet the entire world was hardly represented. All 56 of the signatories were white males of European descent, most of them wealthy property holders. Like some of his co-revolutionaries, Thomas Jefferson, who was primarily responsible for the soaring language of the document ("We hold these truths...
...Russian leader said and did all the right things too, plunging into crowds of tourists at the Lincoln Monument to shake hands and hug babies. He pleased lawmakers with his plans to privatize businesses, initiate land and credit reform and establish a Russo-American bank. He asked for cooperation and investment, not aid: "I did not come here begging," he said. "He appears to be a democrat committed to democracy," decided Senator Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat...
...wants to see what they got to say. He'd make a guy drink and drink and talk and talk until there was no more talk left in him. I never talked because I knew this was a trap. When you drink, you say things. Maybe you don't shake someone's hand. Maybe you make a remark. You don't know. Animosity comes...
Until recently, however, neither director had much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits...
...Perkins took two part-time jobs to meet the payments on his boat and a condominium investment. Last week he landed a new full-time position, but at a salary 25% below his old one. "I feel optimistic now about an upswing," says Perkins, "but there's been a shake-out in salaries. It's put the ball in the employer's court...