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...triumph of determination over adversity. In a ruined city, a small girl played with giant balloons; in a graveyard, a boy fashioned a swing from the branch of a tree. A Pennsylvania miner emerged from the dank earth, rescued in a near miracle after being trapped by an underground flood. In a personification of guts and glory, a football player thundered in the snow of January. And lost in his dreams, a boy rose above the silent confines of autism...
...Agassiz Neighborhood Council, including members of the activist ACID group, met in the cafeteria of the Baldwin Elementary School to hear a presentation from architects and University officials outlining proposed development of the North Yard, including new labs clustered around a grassy yard and an underground parking garage...
...result, international cineasts have at times labeled Zhang a dissident director?a role he has no desire to play. Zhang wants to work in China?not abroad or underground?and fill Chinese theater seats. Not only is he determined to work within the mainland's still conservative system, but he views the task of making movies that satisfy both censors and his own artistic standards as a healthy exercise?one that has forced him to become a better filmmaker. With Hero, he has risen to that challenge...
...European terrorism commander, Abu Doha, an Algerian Islamist arrested in February 2001. Khalfaoui has also been linked to Doha associate Rabah Kadre, arrested by police in London last month under Britain's Terrorism Act amid reports that he and two confederates were planning a gas attack on the London Underground. The arrest of Khalfaoui and others with ties to Doha raises fears that Doha's pan-European network is reassembling, just as Britain prepares a final decision on U.S. demands for Doha's extradition. --By Bruce Crumley. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London
When the British air force raided the German city of Darmstadt on Sept. 11, 1944, the fires set by the incendiary bombs were so intensely hot that, of the night's 12,300 mortalities, the bodies of many of those who were trapped in underground shelters shriveled to the size of dolls. "A crying boy in an air force uniform came out of the cellar, a covered enamel bucket in his hand," an anonymous survivor remembers. "It contained his parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described...