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...doesn't fit the part of a hardened convict. Born into a Czech family that immigrated to the U.S. when he was six, he is articulate and soft-spoken, an idealistic 34-year-old science nerd who hopes someday to conduct cancer research. He is also principled and somewhat stubborn--so stubborn, in fact, that the state of Florida put him on a chain gang last year, and now holds him in a minimum-security facility...
Talk about stubborn (or, if you prefer, principled). After an 81-day siege on the former Clark farm last spring and another six months in jail, most of the Freemen have remained faithful to their professed belief in the Federal Government's illegitimacy. They have largely refused counsel, objecting--and belching loudly--at pretrial hearings. Two weeks ago, a federal judge authorized "such reasonable force as necessary" to take their finger and palm prints. Trials are expected to begin no earlier than March...
...Streep; she's supposed to escort Lee on a forced march from belligerence into family harmony. "How can one sister be so good and the other so bad?" asks Aunt Ruth. The answer: careless writing. The movie is so unfair to Lee that one roots for her to stay stubborn and blinkered. But that won't happen. In its polished, feel-good way Marvin's Room celebrates the breaking of a woman's will, when will is just about...
...point in his quest for the presidency, the Republican candidate told a crowd that as the head of the Red Cross, wife Elizabeth had seen many natural disasters, "and I'm not including my campaign in that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every turn. There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive. There was the premature release of his concession speech on Election Night. And, of course, there was the symbol of his campaign, the Chico--as in California, not Marx--pratfall. On the very same day that Dole landed on his back after crashing...
...ultimate team player, how well the rest will pull together is hard to tell. For instance, Albright leans toward military action, Lake leans against it, and Cohen insists on consulting Congress first. And Albright makes no bones about her love of the limelight, Cohen is a maverick with a stubborn streak, and Lake is known for sharp elbows...