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...this is quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance. It represents the strongest putting of the question to Australia by an Aboriginal in years. It makes us ask: If it's okay for Cathy Freeman to be an Aboriginal because she wins, why is it not OK for someone else to be an Aboriginal when he says, 'This is my land,' or 'My children are dying too young' or 'My children are dying in jail.' Cathy, by having made a statement before...
...whispered, as her grandmother smoothed her hair. As Timms headed back on court to prepare for the silver-medal ceremony, an American fan reached out. She wore a bright pattern of the Stars and Stripes on her sleeve, but her heart was with the Aussie basketballer. "It's okay," she said. "It's okay...
...powdered wigs and declarations drawn up with quill-feathered pens, The Patriot is epic in every sense of the word. It's robust form of sweeping, old-fashioned entertainment that knows exactly which buttons to push and has, unlike the much more remote Gladiator, an honest-to-goodness heart. Okay, so Gibson was a Southern planter who didn't own slaves and the British were so villainous that they burned people in churches-who goes to the movies for their history lesson anyway? Director Roland Emmerich will never be much more than flashy blockbuster peddler, but he certainly knows...
...Officer Louis Favreau roams campus on foot, watching carefully. To all but the most intense scrutiny, he appears to be a college student, wearing a sweatshirt and jeans. On nights like tonight, when he's working undercover and everything is okay, he can pass an entire shift without being noticed. But last week, a drug dealer learned the hard way not to sell drugs under the nose of HUPD's plainclothes unit...
Clinton is inclined to okay the export to a NATO ally. But there's a snag. Two years ago, the Administration promised that it would not approve the sale unless Turkey made "significant progress" on seven human-rights benchmarks. State Department reports reveal that Turkey still flunks them all. Administration aides are looking for ways to get out of the promise, but "we're going to hold them to it," says Amnesty International's Maureen Greenwood...