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Poster-boy Freddie Prinze, Jr. stars as the untried hero Christopher Blair who is launched into the forefront as the hero of the Confederation. Prinze, sporting a tiresomely defiant grin throughout the whole movie, brings little life to the character of Blair. He is teamed up with an equally shallow Matthew Lillard as best friend Maniac, a hotshot wild man and sidekick who does little to advance the plot. In fact, because of a trite dialogue, there is relatively little character development from the entire cast. Aside from Blair, the other characters may just as just as well have cameo...
...teenage mother, desperate for a handhold in the long climb through a childhood in the ghetto names her child Imani or "Faith." Though the simple significance of the appellation may initially seem shallow and even trite, it's this almost innocent, simple connection that gives Imani All Mine its poignancy. The account of child mothering child becomes a story of epic determination which grabs readers and takes them on a ride through a world about which they know little, if anything...
They found the body of the 14-year-old floating in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till. It was August 1955. By that year, reports of lynchings had become shallow waters compared with the swollen river of death that claimed thousands during the post-Reconstruction period and into the first decades of this century. But the mid-century lynching of the child Emmett Till became one of the tributaries that fed into a different kind of river, the flood of the civil rights movement...
...money (beyond the $60 billion spent since President REAGAN unveiled the plan 16 years ago). Out in the Pacific, officials of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are hinting that they expect the Pentagon to pay more for its use of the Kwajalein atoll. Kwajalein's isolation and its shallow, 900-sq.-mi. lagoon have made it an ideal bull's-eye for U.S. missile tests for decades. The Pentagon has access to "Kwaj" through 2001, with a renewal option to 2016. As part of the deal, the islands get American aid. But they want more. The islanders...
...week, riggers and welders were busy bending steel into the first pieces of a new class of nuclear attack submarines. When launched in 2004, the U.S.S. Virginia will be the first of a fearsome nuclear family, 30 vessels bristling with 38 weapons apiece. Designed to prowl the world's shallow coastal waters, where the Navy believes future conflicts could erupt, Virginia-class subs will whisper above the ocean floor, making only 10% of the noise of today's already library-quiet submarines...