Word: argentina
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...Original Screenplay Oscar; and for many Mexicans, native daughter Salma Hayek's Best Actress nomination for Frida counts as another south-of-the-border coup. These films are worth the hype, and then some. And for once, they have plenty of regional company. Years used to separate successes like Argentina's The Official Story (1985), the only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what...
...founders of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, which he ran from 1952 to '63; in Petah Tiqwah, Israel. During Mossad's early years, he directed the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had for years been living under an assumed name in Argentina and was later tried and executed in Israel. Harel recalled dragging Eichmann back to Israel and walking into Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's office with the message "I brought you a present...
...hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach extends far beyond the Mideast...
McKeon has 28 corporate and individual clients nationwide and abroad in such locations as India and Argentina. This year he may surpass the $110,000 salary that he was earning when he was downsized. "I knew that I didn't want to work under someone else's vision," says McKeon, who puts in about 50 hours a week on his venture. "I like thinking of myself as the lead sled dog. It's a great feeling...
...Southern Tigers, who are in first place, have two African-American imports?Nick Sheppard, from Pepperdine via the Harlem Globetrotters, and Jason Dixon, out of Liberty University by way of Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Cyprus. But as Healthy Ma says, it's a team game. The visitors' homegrown guards are as quick as cats, darting untouched among the grasping Shanghainese...