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...have suffered and wrought. But conflagrations all over the world send refugees fleeing to other countries for safety, security, a little peace. There's a potent moment in Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born -the Italian film that shares the Lumiere theater with Sith today -when a boat load of the dispossessed each give, in closeup, their name and home country. Montenegro, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bosnia, Sudan... The list of trouble spots could be endless; the wretched refuse numbers in the tens of millions; each face on that boat of illegal immigrants is a map of human misery...
...calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama!" as a prayer. He bequeaths his worldly goods -"except for The Lord of the Rings" -to a girl he has a crush on at school. Then he sinks ... and is rescued by Radu (Vlad Alexandru Toma), a young Romanian from the refugee boat. The two smugglers in charge have no consideration for the 80 or 100 people, including Vlad's sister Alina (Esther Hazan), whose lives and fortunes they command. Indeed, the varlets take the money and run, stranding the refugees and leaving them prey to the Immigration authorities who soon find them...
...relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...
Competing at the Eastern Sprints, the No. 5 heavyweights finished in third place in the race for the Willing Point Trophy, with the first varsity eight taking fourth. Meanwhile, the No. 3 first varsity lightweight boat came in third in its grand final on the Cooper River in Camden...
...must confront a grown son he didn't know he had, and is haunted by the sound of his prisoners talking late at night: "There was something ghastly about it; it was like listening to the voices of men who'd died together, trapped in the hull of a boat or in a building on fire, hundreds of years ago." The book ends poised between hope, heartbreak and history. Politically, Dean's heart is clearly with the republican cause, though she found little to like in the leaders she interviewed. "They're brilliant propagandists, and it's awesome how cohesive...