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This is spoken not to her husband but to Ron Strickland, a documentary filmmaker who had been hired by Hylan's company, in a typically dopey corporate move, to record the millionaire at sea, and who has now inherited Owen Browne as a subject instead. Strickland's modest fame rests on his ability to make people look ridiculous onscreen, and he is, by and large, willing to jettison Hylan and try out his technique on the photogenic and seemingly unassailable Brownes. Looking at some still photographs of the couple, Strickland's assistant remarks that Owen and Anne "don't resemble...
Stone's elaborate preparations set up a number of teasing, ominous questions. The most obvious: Can Owen survive, let alone win, the race around the globe? A mechanic familiar with the boat Browne will pilot blurts out to Strickland: "My bet would be this -- either he wins or he dies. You pay me either way. If he quits or runs behind, I pay you." It also remains to be seen whether Browne's idealism can withstand the self-enforced isolation of the seas, and whether his marriage to Anne, mired in comfort and mutual tolerance, will outlast the rough shocks...
...Ending the sit-in is no statement as to us giving up," Strickland said...
According to Strickland, Native Americans' court gains have not been implemented to take advantage of this wealth,or to strengthen the rights and improve thelifestyle of the 1.5 million American Indiansresiding...
...generation has seen too many victories incourt fade away to believe in the magic ghost ofcase law," said Strickland. "You can't survive asan Indian people even if you have all the caselaw...