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...field. But for Song, one aspect of the film’s script elevates it above all others and convinced her to work on the project: “It was written by Douglas Coupland.” Yes, that Douglas Coupland—best-selling novelist/social theorist and coiner of the term ‘Generation X.’ “Everything’s Gone Green” is Coupland’s first screenplay, and he again attempts to capture the voice of a generation trying to find its way in the new millennium...
...DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 grabbed Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution," from a street outside Buenos Aires, and later wrote a book about the arrest; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, Se?or" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. Agents later smuggled Eichmann to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged...
DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 captured Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, seor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about...
DIED. ROBERT MERTON, 92, erudite sociologist and onetime aspiring magician whose knowledge of everything from Kant to baseball made his work, notably the 1969 book On the Shoulders of Giants, widely influential; in New York City. Coiner of the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy" and inventor of the focus group (whose abuse he later deplored), he propounded a theory of social deviance popular among liberal politicians in the 1960s, which held that such behavior results when society promotes the same goals to everyone without giving all access to achieve them...
After the initial goal, the Crimson defense tightened up. Senior defender Mike Lobach and sophomore defender Andrew Old held superstar Torero forward Ryan Coiner in check. Coming off a 17-goal, 8-assist season, Coiner was marked tight by the Crimson defense all afternoon...