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...Soon the area outside my window will be another tourist trap," he said...
...recent months as Greenpeace has suffered one public debacle after another. In the latest, activists sailed into the waters off Mururoa atoll early last month in a futile effort to get the French to halt resumption of nuclear-test blasts in the Pacific. But the protesters blundered into a trap, allowing the French navy to seize two vessels--the flagship Rainbow Warrior II and, more significantly, the group's largest support ship, MV Greenpeace. French authorities impounded a third protest vessel a few days before setting off a second atomic blast last week. In the wake of the seizures...
...FROM THE BEGINNING OF this trial, I have believed that we were watching Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill all over again. To me this murder is a gender crime, and I have been fascinated that everyone--the media, the public, law-enforcement personnel--has fallen into the defense-sprung trap of looking at it as a racial episode. In the process, of course, it has become one. But as we wait for the verdict, I feel exactly the way I did that weekend back in 1991 when Anita Hill testified: we absolutely knew who was telling the truth...
...jobs tend to blame their lack of employment opportunity on the system, which they say is geared against the African-American race. Many African-Americans are wiling to work hard for their prosperity, but those lower class blacks who are residents in the inner-cities often fall into the trap of expecting help and therefore do not take it upon themselves to achieve. Instead, they scapegoat everything and everyone, from "the system" to the "legacy of white supremacy" in this country...
...special effects of this film are almost nonexistent. Because Andy Garcia plays both Robby and Reuben, some sort of effects are expected. However, rarely are both brothers seen in the same frame. It is as if technology hasn't advanced since "The Parent Trap...