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The Disney Grooming Syndicate handed the Captain America franchise to a star who doesn’t believe Captain America should represent … America. This is a kind of Dixie Chicks moment because the idiot did it overseas in Italy. Due to extensive reshoots, Captain America: Brave New World’s budget is reported to have hit something like $400 million. The sequel hits theaters in about two weeks and arrives after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels tanked. Nevertheless, here is America’s new Captain America, Anthony Mackie, making it clear that he does not believe that a character named Captain America who...

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:41PM EDT Mackie sentenced By ANNE SAKER, STAFF WRITER A Wake County judge sentenced a former English teacher to at least eight months in prison today for having sex with a student in 2000. Betty Mackie, who taught in the Wake County schools for 18 years, is scheduled to report to court tomorrow, and she then will begin her sentence. Prosecutor Howard Cummings told Judge Donald Stephens that Mackie, who was renowned for her teaching skills, took the student under her wing during his seventh-grade year at Ligon Middle School. At first, the student's parents were...