Word: 7th
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...stuff of movie legend. (He did survive, regain his sight and marry his girlfriend.) But Hollywood didn't rush to make a stirring drama from his story, or from any aspect of that awful day in Hawaii (though the following year John Ford did direct a documentary, December 7th, that got limited release in theaters). Dec. 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy, but not very much on film. Instead, over the 3-1/2-year span of the rest of the war, the dream factory mobilized to manufacture hundreds of movies about tough soldiers fighting the good...
...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
...nearby table, three young men also had shut their laptops in disbelief. Like Blakely, they'd also lost the power in the storm. But their 7th?floor apartment proved too hot and they've spent the past 36 hours staying with nearby friends and perusing free wi-fi wherever they could find it. "I like to think we're European backpackers," said Dave Aronberg...
Telenovelas are TV's fast food--inexpensive and filling--but networks will have to find a way to raise the production values to the gourmet standards American viewers take for granted. An ordinary family drama like 7th Heaven costs $2 million an episode, while a show like 24, with location shots and elaborate special effects, is "like a feature film" that airs every week, Galán says, and can cost even more. With so many episodes to produce, telenovelas are shot on the cheap: they use video, not film, and an entire run might take place on just a handful...
...Ahmadinejad's nationalist statements have bolstered his popularity with many ordinary Iranians. Ahmadinejad's letter to Bush may have been less an invitation to talk than an attempt to appeal to devout Muslims around the world by mimicking the letters sent by the Prophet Muhammad to leaders during the 7th century, exhorting them to return...