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...Son of Iraq (SOI), one of nearly 100,000 Sunnis recruited by the U.S. military to fight al-Qaeda. Saif Abdallah (not his real name) is paid about $300 a month, and works with a group of 20 others somewhere north of Baghdad. His job? "Some patrols, some checkpoints," he says with a familiar shrug. "The work is not hard." (See pictures of five years of U.S. troops in Iraq...
...intimacy over the airwaves, and are adopted by the public as a surrogate uncle or next-door neighbor, Cooke could be distant from his own domestic life. His 1934 marriage to Ruth Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grand-niece, ended in divorce, and he showed little interest in their son John. The Unseen Alistair Cooke shows a home movie the father shot of his six-year-old son's train set, but the footage is all about the toy trains; young John's role was excised before shooting. When his stepdaughters from his 1946 marriage to Jane Hawkes joined...
...eyes of a naïve German boy. Throughout the film, the juxtaposition of childhood innocence with the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis during Word War II facilitates poignant reflection on the divisions created by racism and torn down by friendship.Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the eight-year-old son of a Nazi Captain (David Thewlis) who has been transferred to the German countryside to oversee a concentration camp. Bruno, leaving behind his friends and home in Berlin, is anything but ecstatic about his family’s move to a lonely country estate. However, he soon takes a keen...
...Dalai Lama's nephew, the eldest son of the Tibetan spiritual leader's eldest brother, Thondop, now 56, has already led an extraordinary life. He was born in Calcutta, where his father, a political leader in the Tibetan government, had been posted. He went to the elite St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, got an MBA in the United States, ran a family business for several years in New York City, and then returned to India in 1977 to serve as his uncle's special assistant. Two years later, he went to Beijing for Tibet's first negotiations with...
Nick Snow, the son of the team’s coaches, said that Jones has “played a large role in our existence to this point...