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...Learn More: Information on Pearl Harbor and WWII from across...
...Possibly the most widely anticipated release this summer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor is a $135 million epic story about a certain air raid that plunged our nation into WWII. Like Titanic, it features a love triangle (between the very attractive Kate Beckinsale and hunks Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), shots of ships sliding perpendicularly into the sea, as well as awe-inspiring special effects; where the movie should really shine, is not only the imagery of flaming wreckage littering the Hawaiian landscape, but also the truly haunting sight of warplanes flying so close to the ground that baseball...
...DIED. MICHIKO NAMIKI, 79, Japanese singer whose Apple Song was a major hit following WWII; in Tokyo. As historian John Dower wrote: "That spirits were lifted by a peppy jingle about something edible was hardly surprising at a time when food was an overriding concern...
...business, fine," says Tiongson. "But this was meddling in the state." He resigned last Tuesday and was replaced by Alejandro Roces, 76, a former education secretary, who told TIME that the last decent movie he saw was Gandhi. He added, "The ones done before the war (that's WWII), now they were really good...
...Davis also introduced an additional $404 million in conservation measures aimed at cutting statewide consumption by 10 percent. The plan will include a $20 million television ad campaign urging Californians to conserve electricity, and a WWII-style edict ordering businesses to turn off half their outdoor lights on pain of $1,000 fines...