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...MOVIES . . . WHEN WE WERE KINGS: As Spike Lee says of Muhammad Ali in this enthralling new documentary, 'He fused politics and sport.' Ali?s conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Thanks in part to a strong Christmas shopping season and a sharp spike in 1996 exports, the Gross Domestic Product expanded by a healthy 2.5 percent last year, according to the Commerce Department. The fourth quarter GDP growth of 4.7 percent was the largest since the spring of 1994, and far exceeded the expected 3.8 percent increase. At the same time, inflation dipped to just 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter. Even though the GDP grew 25 percent more last year than in 1995, when it rose 2 percent overall, few market anaylsts expect a worrisome raise...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Thanks in part to a strong Christmas shopping season and a sharp spike in 1996 exports, the Gross Domestic Product expanded by a healthy 2.5 percent last year, according to the Commerce Department. The fourth quarter GDP growth of 4.7 percent was the largest since the spring of 1994, and far exceeded the expected 3.8 percent increase. At the same time, inflation dipped to just 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter. Even though the GDP grew 25 percent more last year than in 1995, when it rose 2 percent overall, few market anaylsts expect a worrisome raise...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Former presidential candidate George Wallace, whose campaign platform touted the virtues of a racially segregated society in the American south, is protesting a new Spike Lee biopic that portrays the four-term Alabama governor as contemplating suicide following a 1972 assassination attempt. The 77-year-old Wallace insists that he never considered suicide. Having long since made peace with the black Americans he once opposed, he's concerned that Lee's film will unnecessarily dredge up his segregationist past. "I grow a bit weary with people who were always his critics saying he has to spend the rest...
...wasn't the only scientist who had observed this. Another team, headed by George Shaw, had seen the same spike in HIV particles followed by a precipitous drop. The two researchers learned of each other's work and decided to co-publish their findings in a 1991 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was the beginning of a friendly but no less keen competition between the scientists...