Word: ways
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...uncanny taste for inspirational improbability might be fed up with "Men of Honor." But that may not be so. There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up clichés. He just keeps driving his movie right on through them. What's true of him is true of his actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy, where menace and comedy very effectively coexist...
...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...find out next Sunday when we see people actually collected them," he says. "If I think about it one day when I'm in there, [I'll get chips]; I'm not going to go out of my way to get three bags of chips...
...creative way to save some money, and there's nothing wrong with that," Plants says...
...many ways, from vouchers to college savings, the Republicans have managed to frame the education debate. As the future of the nation lies with future generations, it is important to take a long, hard look at the way the education system will be changed by the outcome of next week's election. Bush has won the education issue, offering innovative approaches to the education crisis that faces this country. Gore simply rehashes the liberal platform, a platform that has dominated the education policy debate for the past eight years without producing any noteworthy gains...