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...able to catch rain in Ziploc plastic bags and at one point tried to squeeze water out of his wet woolen socks, without much luck. He found sustenance by eating leaves, grass and ants-but not too many of the latter. "They're hard to catch," he reported afterward. "He maintained his cool," said Admiral Leighton Smith, nato's southern commander. "He's very smart, he's very determined and very gutsy to have evaded for as long as he did using the equipment that...
...Tadesse stab Ho 45 times, why did she hang herself afterward and most important, why did it happen at Harvard...
...worth considering at length and leisure. Eastwood does; he is a man who likes to take his time. The picture clocks in at 2 1/4 hours -- a span in which anyone who got past 10th grade could read the book, linger over favorite passages and smoke a reflective cigarette afterward. Part of this time is wasted on a framing story about the affair's impact decades later on Francesca's grown children. The rest is lavished on the warming of two stars and styles as they reach accommodation...
...Soviet embassy. A young major in the KGB who was married, he attracted the attention of the FBI when the bureau got a telephone call from a friendly insurance adjuster informing them that Motorin had been in a car accident. There was a hooker in the car. Not long afterward, the FBI watched Motorin walk into a store in downtown Washington and barter his operational allowance of vodka and Cuban cigars for stereo equipment. Using these indiscretions as leverage, the FBI persuaded him to begin spying for the U.S. He identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent...
...women who fought and won the war in Europe, V-E day meant the exultant, resounding vindication of good against evil. For me, then an eight-year-old boy and one of millions of Germans on the run, it would be a recurring nightmare. Afterward, I often dreamed of the final days of the war, of trains under fire, of soldiers being hanged for desertion, of refugees in desperate flight. In time the dreams would become more infrequent and the memories fuzzier, but never-even a lifetime later-would I forget the smell of May 1945, the strange combination...