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When Stuker gets there, he says, he'll do it in style. "It won't be on a flight to Des Moines or Omaha, I'll take a bus before I cross the mark on one of those flights. It's going to be an international flight, probably Europe with my girlfriend. I'm going to plot it out exactly and know when I hit it. And hell yeah, there is going to be champagne...
Early on the morning of June 6, 1944, a cluster of ships huddled 5,000 yards off the inviting stretch of French coastline between Vierville-sur-Mer and Ste.-Honorine-des-Pertes, which for the purposes of that day had been rechristened Omaha Beach. On board were two companies from the 741st Tank Battalion of the U.S. Army. They were facing the uninviting task of driving their tanks to the shore...
...July, the National Assembly passed an amendment that would eliminate the need for the Architectes des Bâtiments de France (ABF), a specialized corps of state architects, to approve new construction projects in France's 600 protected heritage zones. Former Culture Minister Jack Lang decried the vote, saying it was pushed by Sarkozy's party under pressure from property-development lobbies and mayors with building projects the ABF would have turned down. (The amendment was rejected by the Senate and is now before a conference committee.) Even before the vote, Rykner says the government had begun to undermine...
...freak show, filled with the patchwork tents and car parts that form the wandering circus’ home. This cozy shantytown contrasts perfectly with the imposing black car of the evil Desmond “Mr.” Tiny (Michael Cerveris), whose license plate, “Des-Tiny,” is one of the film’s many ingratiating flourishes...
...murderous campaign of its own. Experts have long said that those killers must also come before the ICTR. "If you deliver justice on one side and not the other, you leave a group of people angry and resentful, and they don't forget," renowned Rwanda investigator Alison des Forges told TIME last year, weeks before she died in a plane crash. Des Forges was insistent in her demand that members of the RPF face justice, but with her voice silenced and the tribunal winding down, her wish probably won't be realized...