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...riveting shots of gushing waters and daring rescues. In the western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were...
...been looking forward to Castro's fall for years, but this isn't what we had in mind." A U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, on Cuban President Fidel Castro's tumble from the dais at a graduation ceremony outside Havana last week. Castro broke his knee and right...
Harvard senior Rob Flynn broke through 9:40 into the second period, and blueliner Dylan Reese struck again less than two minutes later. The sophomore, hovering midway between the points, picked up the puck as it bounced from the boards and fired a straight shot past Kalleitner...
Friend in Need After a struggle that looked more like mud-wrestling than statesmanship, the British government announced it would send 850 soldiers from its zone in southern Iraq to the American zone near Baghdad. When news of the redeployment first broke - via leaks by family members who were outraged that the soldiers wouldn't be home for Christmas as planned - Prime Minister Tony Blair had an ugly fight on his hands. Only 40% of British people now think the Iraq war was justified, and to many M.P.s, including previously loyal members of Blair's Labour Party, this additional accommodation...
Primer, the directorial debut of Shane Carruth, lacks any narrative thread, but essentially is a story about four broke, thirtysomething engineers who create a mysterious box in their garage that defies scientific rationality and seems to give them inexplicable control over life. Two members of the group, Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), decide to probe what potential their creation might have: They explore the commercial possibilities of time-travel for a few hours each day, encounter dreadful mishaps in a Scooby Doo-esque fashion and finally, things end quite badly, with the audience, plot and characters...