Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately for the Crimson, it will not be able to count on the same support on Saturday in Chapel Hill. But then again, if you're ready to pony up $5 to stand in an ice storm for three hours, why not spring for a plane ticket to North Carolina...
...away justice. What are we telling people in this case? That if you commit a crime and lie, you get away with it? It really belittles and diminishes the value of Matthew's life. [Is this] a society that views children as dispensable? Children of abuse cannot take the stand, so who is going to speak for them? I was brought up [to believe] that there is right and wrong, that there are actions and consequences...
Wesley Snipes stars as a commercial director who begins to reevaluate his life after a visit with his AIDS-infected best friend (Robert Downey Jr.) and a one night stand with a beautiful rocket scientist (Nastassja Kinski). Though it shows some intelligence in dealing with issues of loss and adultery, Mike Figgis' latest effort lacks the complexity and emotional heft of Leaving Las Vegas. What redeems the sketchy script just enough to make the film bearable is Figgis' jazzy direction and a nuanced performance by Snipes...
Aside from the manner of her death, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia, should have no particular reason to stand out in the history of European royalty. But her extraordinary murder, combined with a string of confusing propaganda and poorly conducted investigations, opened the door for numerous impostors seeking to lay claim to the Romanov name and fortune. Indeed, Anna Anderson, as the most famous of these impostors came to be known, kept up her charade for years, through the press and even the German court system, until her death...
...used village wisdom to urge Americans to take a tougher stand on Beijing ? ?If you look aside when gangsters abuse your neighbors, then you will never be safe," he opines. "Only when all people band together against such gangsters will all be safe.? But he was quickly eclipsed by those Iowa infants ? who, in the battle for ratings, command many more divisions than...