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...DIED. WILTON MKWAYI, 81, antiapartheid fighter who served more than 20 years of a life sentence with Nelson Mandela in prison on Robben Island; in King Williams Town, South Africa. Mkwayi helped found an armed-resistance movement called Spear of the Nation in the 1950s. Convicted of treason in 1964, he was released as the apartheid system was being dismantled...
EDWARDS: Not too much. You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when...
Leary (also a co-writer and co--executive producer) stars as Tommy Gavin, an F.D.N.Y. veteran with a disturbing habit of talking to his cousin, fellow fire fighter and best friend Jimmy (James McCaffrey)--disturbing because Jimmy is dead, killed in the World Trade Center collapse. Jimmy left no remains behind but a finger--"My beer-opening finger," he complains during one imaginary visit with Tommy--and since then Tommy has been unable to go into a fire without taking a hit off a flask. (Tommy's alcoholism, curiously, did not dissuade Miller beer from a sponsorship deal that includes...
...drama and humor. But Rescue Me is also about how an all-male subculture handles vulnerability and loss--or denies it. Tommy's squad brusquely refuses the help of a city psychotherapist; counseling here is a bigger taboo than in the Soprano family. Lou (John Scurti), a fire fighter who expresses his grief by writing poetry about 9/11, guards this secret closely, with good reason. When his wife finds out, even she begs him to destroy it. "I don't need you to share," she says. "I love you the way you are. So get rid of these...
Those chances seemed good enough for Gfoeller. Iraq had a new boxing coach, and six months later the country had its Athens-bound fighter--Najah Ali, 24, a flyweight with a computer-science degree from Alrafdean University in Baghdad. Freed from the torturous reign of Iraq's former Olympic CEO, Uday Hussein, and spurred by a trickle of private investment in sports, several other Iraqis will join Ali as unlikely Olympians this summer. For the first time since 1988, Iraq's soccer team has qualified for the Olympics. Iraqi women's sports--destroyed under Uday's rule because athletes feared...