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...Apparently our guide doesn't want us to see the towers, as he has us hightailing along in the opposite direction. "Red canyon," he shouts, calling for the jeep driver to halt. There isn't a single souvenir stand or roadside restaurant in sight. He points left, and we finally see his objective. Towering red sandstone formations soar before us in the late afternoon sun like a miniature Grand Canyon...
...blocks later, three men standing in the back of a black pickup truck wave United States flags and shout at the train of protesters. “U-S-A,” they chant as the dome of MIT’s Building 10 comes into sight...
...Around 11 a.m., just over a small rise out of sight from Shorish, another DSHK let loose in long streams for almost a minute. A young Iraqi conscript had attempted to desert and was cut down by his own men. It was the third deserter killed this way since Monday after months of almost free passage for fleeing soldiers. "The ones the other day were torn up and the Iraqis took one of their bodies away in a blanket. This one will not be different," said Sajit...
...figurehead for a loose group of actors and filmmakers who were trying to expand the commercial genre...Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention, but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns at the box office. Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans and Warren Beatty, his co-star in Fortune. Nicholson, along with his real gifts, has always had a canny ability...
...real brat"), he became an orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded gun and was cashiered. He had a nice scam fencing linen in Nanjing; then the Japanese took control of China. Charles was jailed and forced to watch executions. The sight of beheadings made even this tough guy sick. Still, Charles was lucky. A relative with connections sprang him from jail, and by fleeing to Chongqing province after Japanese air raids killed his parents, he missed the Japanese army's vile rape of Nanjing...