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...overwhelming force. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his fellow officers had 500,000 men stretched across 800 miles; many were middle-aged or conscripts from Eastern Europe. They would ultimately face 1 million men by July--not just Yanks and Brits but Canadian, French, Polish and Dutch troops swarming across the Channel from southern England, which had turned into a vast base163 new airfields, 2 million tons of supplies, 1,500 tanks, 5,000 boats. The Luftwaffe's 183 fighter planes that day faced 11,000 Allied aircraft...
...onto French soil, they met vastly different fates. At Utah Beach, the farthest west, bombardments had decimated the German defenses. Moreover, an opportune navigational mistake had landed the troops at a practically unguarded stretch of the beach. The Americans who landed there sustained relatively few casualties. The British and Canadian forces who landed at Gold and Juno beaches fought their way ashore, according to plan, and were soon followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies...
...award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star of ?2046.? Cheung had shot some scenes for that film, but was not evident in the print shown at Cannes. Success is the best medicine for disappointment...
...Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit against the Justice Department in January on behalf of Maher Arar, a Canadian arrested during a layover in New York City because of suspected al-Qaeda ties. He was deported to Syria, where the C.C.R. alleges he was tortured for months before winning release...
...answer: nothing. Though a few B.R.O. members had been pushing marriage for years, until British Columbia's decision, same-sex marriage didn't seem to be a viable possibility to many gay activists. But now some gay Oregonians had actual marriage licenses--Canadian ones, but still. And everyone knew the Massachusetts high court was wrestling with its marriage decision, one that many activists were predicting would be favorable. They knew their constitution, like the one in Massachusetts, included sweeping guarantees of equal protection. So while Multnomah gays had won health benefits and other rights through domestic partnership just four years...