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Article: `Empire': How We Gained Power; Plus: On UPN, `Moesha' Returns and `Grown Ups' Debuts
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- The Washington Post
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- August 22, 1999
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Edward James Olmos narrates PBS's "Crucible of Empire: The
Spanish-American War" Monday at 9. It's a look at the war that moved
the United States to center stage as a world power and caused the
country, founded in opposition to imperialism, to become an imperial
power under President Theodore Roosevelt.
Filmed in Cuba and the Philippines, the countries where the United
States had managed to oust Spain, "Crucible of Empire" tells the
story of the Spanish-American War from various perspectives.
Actor Lou Diamond Phillips reads the words of Filipino rebel
leader Emilio Aguinaldo, and Patrick Leahy, Paul Simon, Alan Simpson
and Frank Lautenberg, all of whom have served in the U.S. Senate, ...