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...Bill Cosby, the NAACP and Sundance's Robert Redford. Love and Basketball, a $15 million hoop-dreams drama with Omar Epps and Alfre Woodard, was produced by Spike Lee's company (her husband, Reggie Rock Bythewood, wrote Get on the Bus for Lee). Now, at 30, she plans a slave epic, but--here's a Hollywood novelty--from a black perspective. "If I'm not telling these stories," she asks, "who will...
...sometimes the feeling is mutual. Gore views Bradley as a slave to his own self-regard, a man whose sanctimony is an ineffective and even hypocritical approach to politics. Gore's lieutenants love to point out Bradley's contradictions: he spent $2 million on his polling operation in his 1990 Senate race--an early attempt at Clinton-style values polling--yet claims to hate poll-driven politics. He calls himself a crusader against corporate tax loopholes, yet came out in support of ethanol subsidies that chiefly benefit one conglomerate, Archer Daniels Midland, because he wants to curry favor with Iowa...
...drawback for those already online with another service. Designed specifically for the kitchen--a bracket, sold separately, makes it a space saver--the iCEBOX can do something few other info appliances can: connect to closed-circuit cameras for monitoring the back porch or the baby's room while you slave away at that stove...
...Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson has fared the worst at the hands of revisionists. If he has managed to keep his place on Mount Rushmore, he has been vilified almost everywhere else in recent years as a slave-owning hypocrite and racist; a political extremist; an apologist for the vicious, botched French Revolution; and in general, somewhat less the genius remembered in our folklore than a provincial intellectual and tinkerer...
...work of a life may transcend the biography; a civilized person, the slave-owning hypocrite--or whatever he may have been beneath the impenetrable enamels of his character--formulated, in the Declaration of Independence, the founding aspiration of America and what is still its best self, an ideal that retains its motive force precisely because it is unfulfilled and maybe unfulfillable: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...