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During World War II in Budapest, the Soros family, Hungarian Jews, became fugitives from Nazi persecution, living under assumed names and at times hiding out in a basement. Soros, his parents and his brother barely survived the war, only to see Hungary fall under the fist of the Soviet Union. It was a harrowing time, yet, in retrospect, a positive one for the young Soros. "Nineteen forty-four was the best year of my life," he maintains. "I was 14 when the world intruded on my life. I was old enough to be aware of what was happening, and young...
...home looked warm and welcoming enough to the young Branch Davidian girl. She was fascinated with the hot running water, flush toilets, heated food. The Waco compound had no such comforts. But upon passing a door leading to the basement, the youngster froze. "Do you have a whipping room down there?" she asked her new guardians. "No," answered the woman who now cared for her, "do you have one?" "Yes," said the little girl. "When they don't want everyone to hear us, they take us down there...
...aspects of culture accessible, expanding their target population beyond cliques of angst-ridden artistes to the entire Harvard-Radcliffe community; beyond the usual repertoire of painting and sculpture to live music, talks given by professors, graphic design, performance art and cheerleadings and beyond. Tryptych's exhibition site in the basement of Memorial Church to the open-aired squash courts at Adams House into the previously unexplored realms of the Busch-Reisinger, Fogg and Sackler Museums, the Carpenter Center and even the steps of Widener. (Next year they plan to invade the dorm rooms). In an effort to intensify the bond...
...Balls," Samuel Fuller snarled as he explained the problems of today's movie industry, "It takes balls to make a good film." The octogenarian Hollywood legend was speaking in the basement of Sever Hall as part of the Avignon/Cambridge '93 film workshop. Though the panel included three other directors and two actors, Fuller managed to dominate the discussion in his characteristically brash yet lovable style...
...charge that Officer Laurence Powell "did willfully strike . . . kick and stomp Rodney Glen King," thereby violating King's constitutional right "not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law, including the right to be . . . free from the intentional use of unreasonable force" by policemen. In the basement of the First A.M.E. Church, a voice cried, "Thank God!" On the videotape of the beating made by an onlooker and shown endlessly on TV, Powell had been seen to strike by far the most blows...