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...late. Gibson, who directs himself in Randall Wallace's screenplay, starts with certain disadvantages vis-e-vis Rob Roy: Sir Walter Scott never wrote a novel about William Wallace, and no one named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several big and expertly staged battle sequences, it really doesn't have enough on its mind to sustain our full attention over that span. Freedom, Wallace keeps telling everyone, is a good thing, worth dying...
...third-seeded Crimson lightweights crossed the finish line in 6:21.61, more than a length in front of second-place Yale (6:25.38) and third-place Princeton(6:26.91). Dartmouth (6:32.02), Cornell (6:33.36) and Georgetown (6:36.46) rounded out the six-boat race. Princeton and Yale beat the Crimson in a dual-meet on April...
...meter mark, the Crimson had a six-seat lead. At the 1300-meter mark, Harvard had open water. One final push with 400 meters to go gave the Crimson the length-and-a-half final margin...
...committee hearings last week, Kasich wore an Elvis Presley tie to symbolize the length of time since the last balanced budget -- in 1969, when Elvis was still the King and the government took in $3.2 billion more than it spent. And that was an aberration: spending has exceeded revenues in 34 of the past 35 years-though the red ink did not become truly frightening until excessive tax cuts and accelerated defense spending were enacted during Ronald Reagan's presidency...
...vote, theSupreme Court ruled that states can't place limits on the length of time members of congress can serve. The ruling strikes down an Arkansas term-limit law and similar measures passed by 21 other states. It is likely to slow the populist rush for such limits, at least for a while. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution prohibits states from imposing qualifications upon candidates beyond minimum age, residency and citizenship --the ones explicitly stated in its text. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the Constitution is simply silent on the issue. Speaker...