Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are no easy solutions offered in this film, and no absolutes. Lee instead blurs all the dividing lines. There is no right and no wrong, and even the lines of race, around which all of the tension is developed, are left blurred at the end. The Korean man, fearing that his shop will be the next one gutted by fire, proclaims that he is Black...
They were wrong. After ten years of rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), the misery that marked life for most of the country under Somoza is, if anything, worse. The red and black anniversary valentines that bedeck roadside billboards aptly reflect what has always been the regime's strong suit: romantic rhetoric, not reality. The sole success of the F.S.L.N. is holding on to power, despite an eight-year war by the U.S. and its contra rent-an-army. Says Alfredo Cesar, a former contra director and now an opposition political leader in Managua: "The Sandinistas are good...
...after Apollo, something went wrong with the nation's space program. Despite successes -- such as the Skylab space station and the series of unmanned missions that will reach its climax next month when Voyager 2 arrives at Neptune -- the program seemed to founder. The space shuttle, for example, was oversold as the one answer to U.S. space-transportation needs. But it is too big to put astronauts in space efficiently, too small to launch the largest payloads and too unreliable to live up to the 60-flight-per-year schedule once promised. The result, even before the Challenger accident...
...guess I was wrong...
...program that puts people in space may indeed have an important role to play in expanding our knowledge of the universe, one that warrants the huge expenditure it will require. But as it stands now, the United States and President Bush appear to be taking the wrong path and for all the wrong reasons...