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...foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with a one-dimensional role and Chris Cooper is wasted as a stereotypically foul-mouthed, hard-edged officer. “Jarhead”’s characters annoyingly avoid any mention of Bush Sr., preferring platitudes about how politics don’t matter in combat. The movie’s reluctance to explore the First Gulf War’s broader ramifications is especially bewildering now, while we’re fighting a second. Ultimately, “Jarhead” says that...
Like so many other Americans who work 100-hour weeks, Fitzgerald was born to immigrants. Patrick Sr. and Tillie Fitzgerald, both of County Clare, Ireland, raised four children in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Patrick Sr. was a doorman in Manhattan at a building on East 75th Street, just off Madison Avenue, and he rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship...
...government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance. God bless her soul, and may the light of liberation forever shine. ?By the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr...
...like education and public works. “We’re going to have to determine what kind of a city we want to live in.” But challenger Bill Hees called taxes and overspending the two biggest problems facing Cambridge. Another challenger, Robert L. Hall, Sr. concurred, saying, “We can make government more efficient and more effective...We can’t continue to just keep spending money.” Cambridge resident Allen Davis said he found the forum very informative, but was not impressed with the challengers’ ideas...
...grandfather, Albert Adomanis Sr., was a Lithuanian immigrant who worked on the docks of South Philadelphia. He did not finish grade school and never went to high school, much less college. He lived a hard, rough, unforgiving life of manual labor, and died relatively young. Had one found him along the filthy Delaware River, after he finished tying down a freighter, and told him that two of his grandsons would attend Harvard, he would not have known whether to laugh or to cry. While seemingly clichéd, the story of my grandfather has a large bearing...