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Genzyme Corporation--a biotechnology company based in Kendall Square--submitted the only other bid, offering $25 million for the parcel of land nearest its 500 Soldier Field Rd. location. Potential buyers were allowed to bid for one of two parcels of land, or bid on both together...
Thankfully, many of the grislier sequences in Shooting War are interspersed with gentler scenes: a young girl handing a G.I. a daisy, French peasants pitching hay even in a bomb-ravaged countryside, Thanksgiving turkeys being air-dropped to U.S. soldiers in the Far East. But these reprieves are brief: unlike the relentlessly pro-Allied cinematic morale boosters made by Ford and others at the time, Shooting War also shows an Australian infantryman using a flamethrower on a screaming Japanese soldier in Borneo, as well as Japanese orphans shaking uncontrollably from radiation sickness after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb...
First as a blue-collar, non-Kennedy Catholic at Harvard; then as an enlisted soldier-law student in Vietnam; as a Republican Congressman from a mostly Democratic district and finally as a Republican governor in a mostly Democratic state...
...collective memory of Misgav Am, a kibbutz that juts like a polyp into Lebanese territory, is the night in 1980 when Palestinian terrorists slipped across the border and took over the communal dormitory where local children slept, shooting to death the village secretary as well as a soldier and crushing the head of a weepy two-year-old boy. "Hizballah is responsible for our future now," says the current secretary, Hanan Rubinski. "We're waiting for them to decide...
...stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score of Friday night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always been the rare joy of American soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking for a holiday picnic under the oak tree in the backyard. And it was in this home-and-hearth spirit...