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...Director Joel Schumacher's breathlessly paced and incident-crammed movie will induce a certain sense of deja vu among veteran viewers. Yes, we have intruded in this dust, killed this mockingbird before. But that was back in the days before lawyer jokes, before we became transfixed by transgressive hipness, before we became a full-time culture of irony...
...contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...
...they blend in so well? The state relaxed its gun-control laws two years ago, and Joel Breshin of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League points out that, "it's not unusual in Arizona to see people walking around in Army camouflage or walking to and from their car with a gun...What's so scary is that the [Vipers] were so successful at hiding their plan that other militia groups didn't even know this group had been plotting. That showed true dedication to their cause...
...Johnson's Skyline High School track coach, Joel Ezar, recalls, "He came to me in his junior year, and he looked more like a Rhodes scholar than a track athlete. He had horn-rimmed glasses and a briefcase and a tie. After he won a few races, I asked one of the kids, 'Who was that?' He said, 'That's Michael.' And I said, 'Michael who?' That's when I started to look closely at this nerdy kid." That sort of characterization does not sit particularly well with Johnson, who says, "Coach Ezar always makes too much of that nerd...
Other Key Players: Ed Mosley '99, Dustin DeNunzio '98, Joel Friedman...