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While KEVIN COSTNER's Cuban-missile-crisis thriller Thirteen Days may not have been box-office plutonium, the film has exploded on the world-leaders scene. First George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy attended a screening at the White House; then, last week, it was viewed and critiqued by none other than crisis participant FIDEL CASTRO. Costner met with Castro for seven hours and discussed how the film's depiction of the events jibed with the Cuban leader's memories of the real McCoy. "I shouldn't be speaking for [Castro], but he responded to the film very favorably...
...Harvard bats-which mustered just one hit against Breslow in Friday's first game-roared back to life and had no trouble catching up to Steitz' renowned fastball. The Crimson pounded out thirteen hits in the game. That total was second only to the team's season-best 14 hit performance against Holy Cross last Wednesday...
...After enduring drivel like The Postman, Message in a Bottle and For the Love of the Game (I exclude Waterworld because I actually think it was a darn good movie), even the most forgiving folk promised to boycott all future Costner exercises-in-ego. Which meant, of course, that Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama which opened in December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana...
...other Chinese puzzle: Beijing never apologized, never explained. Nevertheless, the airline sent the Chinese government a bill for 251,400. Thirteen months after the incident, Beijing paid it in full...
...students complained of nausea, abdominal cramps, vomiting and diahrrea. Thirteen students have been admitted to Stillman Infirmary. Nine