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...Green Tea, a guy-meets-girl urban romance due out in the fall, camera equipment and lights are strewn around a dusty Beijing alleyway. Jiang tilts his aluminum patio chair precariously against the alley wall, a cigarette pasted to his bottom lip, meditating on his next scene with actress Zhao Wei. Director Zhang Yuan is in a nearby building reviewing today's footage, while Christopher Doyle and his crew are readying equipment for the next shot. A crew member relates how Jiang has his hands in every part of the shoot?coaching other actors, conceiving new shots, even asking...
...Viet Cong executed with a gunshot to the head, the dead at Kent State and in Rwanda all had families and a human right to dignity. But their deaths had an unfortunate significance for the world; they were conscripted into history in a way that someone knifed in an alley is not. Yes, we would still know what happened to them even if we destroyed every picture of their deaths. But would we feel it? Jacqueline Kennedy knew the power of image when she insisted on returning to Washington wearing the clothes stained with her husband?s blood: she said...
Defensively, the Crimson came up strong in Philadelphia, down only 25-18 at the half. But Onyekwe and Archibong woke up in the second half and pulverized the overmatched Crimson inside. Harvard gave up 18 turnovers, which the Quakers converted into easy layups and alley-oops. At one point Penn led by 29, and in the end settled for a 78-51 victory...
...childhood that I spent in Denver she lived around the corner, close enough to be a near constant companion but just far away enough that I could display a playground boastfulness about being allowed to walk to her house alone. Her bedroom window faced mine across the alley and on summer nights we used to whisper through walkie-talkies long after our parents had put us to bed. Amanda was with me the first time I had a sleepover, the first time I was allowed to walk to school alone, the first time I took a leap into the deep...
...just the Palestinians who watched their men die in the alleys of Jenin. On Day 7, Sergeant Major Dror Harazi, 34, with 14 years of service in the reserves, was ordered into a house overlooking an alley where a platoon of the 5th Brigade had been ambushed. Gunmen were firing at the Israelis from a building above the alley. With Lieut. Eyal Yoel, an officer from a kibbutz outside Jerusalem, Harazi went into a half-built house to provide covering fire for the injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked...