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...HISTORY Up until about 1970, an estimated 100,000 young Aborigines were forced to leave their families under brutal assimilation policies...
...celebrate the no-hitter, and my friend went home—as always—a shamed Orioles fan. I was convinced. The Sports Illustrated cover jinx? Please. Ten days after the magazine featured Eli Manning on its cover, the little brother overcame a brutal postseason history to win the Most Valuable Player award in the Giants’ Super Bowl win. So the Harvard women’s basketball team will have to excuse me for pointing out the déjà vu I’m feeling as I watch it put together a season quite similar...
...compatriots waged a fierce independence struggle from the jungles of East Timor, Ramos-Horta took a less violent path. The now-58-year-old, who earned a Peace Studies degree at Antioch University in the U.S., tirelessly criss-crossed the globe, campaigning for an end to Indonesia's brutal annexation of his homeland. His passionate diplomacy eventually paid off. Six years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which up to 200,000 East Timorese are believed...
...sharing anecdotes about his experiences working with the likes of Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman. When first released, Penn’s films were groundbreaking for their graphic representations of violence and social tensions that had been previously absent in movies, which Penn said was intended to echo the brutal assassinations of prominent leftist individuals, the rebellious youth and counter-cultural movements sweeping the nation, and the hostile oppositional beliefs so prevalent in American society at the time. Penn described a snapshot of the atmosphere of American society at the time that he was directing his movies...
...took place in two countries, netting nearly 80 alleged mobsters in New York and Sicily. Spanning the Atlantic, the joint FBI-Italian police action was dubbed the "Old Bridge." But the name isn't simply a bit of bureaucratic poetry: it is a reference to the conclusion of a brutal gang war that saw the losers flee to America two decades ago to avoid extermination. And now, just when some of the exiles thought it was safe to go back across the water, the authorities have swept them...