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...official in Washington. "You will still be our friend, not China," Saycon assured the man. Saycon then phoned someone he identified as Brigadier General Danilo Lim. Over the speakerphone, Lim said it was "all systems go." A military contingent would march to a shrine in Manila where the 20th anniversary of the People Power revolution (which toppled Ferdinand Marcos) was to be celebrated. There, the military men would meet a group of Catholic bishops, and a Philippine marine officer would read a statement withdrawing support from the government. The bishops made one request: that the coup be bloodless...
...hour drama. Six hours? Yep. Too long for a sit in a movie house, but just right for an evening or two's home adventure. This is old-fashioned filmmaking--beautiful people facing horrible problems--at its most seductive. At times it strains to represent every aspect of late 20th century Italy in one family (a Red Brigades radical is told to kill a prominent attorney, who is--her brother-in-law!). But that happens in novels, and this is a picto-fiction that truly deserves the word epic...
...unbeknownst to the athletes, the trainers and the worldwide TV audience - major trouble was brewing in Torino. A hurried closed-door meeting was under way at the local command center of the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police, that would lead to the one big black mark of the 20th Winter Games: a spiraling doping drama featuring a suicidal Austrian coach, a crusading Italian magistrate and an unprecedented nighttime police raid - all of which could change the way that future Olympics fight the war against banned substances. The saga began to unfold just before 5 p.m. when Mario Pescante, Italy...
...home after serving as president of another institution. Nathaniel M. Pusey ’28 headed Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., before becoming Harvard’s 24th president. And Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, was chief of Antioch College in Ohio before he was Harvard’s 20th leader...
...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...