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...voice often cracked by remembered pain. Once selected for the Kindertransports, these kids had just days to pack their bags and say what some of them knew was their final farewells to their parents. The latter tried desperately to cram a lifetime's moral instruction, not to mention unsunderable love, into those hasty moments. One of the film's most heartbreaking stories is of a father who, running alongside a departing train, could not bear the separation. He yanked his daughter through an open window--and ultimately into a concentration camp. She survived...
...voice often cracked by remembered pain. Once selected for the Kindertransports, these kids had just days to pack their bags and say what some of them knew was their final farewells to their parents. The latter tried desperately to cram a lifetime's moral instruction, not to mention unsunderable love, into those hasty moments. One of the film's most heartbreaking stories is of a father who, running alongside a departing train, could not bear the separation. He yanked his daughter through an open window - and ultimately into a concentration camp. She survived...
...suffused with national pride, but the outstanding middle-distance athletes who have gone before El Guerrouj don't dispute the praise. "He's the best I've seen by a long way," says Sebastian Coe, now Lord Coe, who along with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram traded the mile record between 1979 and 1985. Their reign fell to Africa in 1993, when Algeria's Noureddine Morceli sheared almost 2 sec. from Cram's eight-year-old record...
...picayune factoids covered by the exams. A study released last month by the University of Virginia found that while some schools had boosted their performance on Virginia's exam, teachers had to curtail field trips, elective courses and even student visits to the bathroom--all in an effort to cram more test prep into the school day. Says the study's author, education professor Daniel Duke: "These schools have become battlefield units...
...fast-growing traffic in Chinese illegal immigrants is a modern-day kind of slave trade, harsh, uncertain and expensive--except there is freedom and opportunity at the end for those who survive it. Thousands of Chinese pay huge sums to cram into ramshackle ships and sealed containers in the hope of sneaking into the U.S. Rough estimates put the number at 10,000 for 1999. Some are caught--1,500 were repatriated last year--but most succeed in joining the estimated global tide of 275,000 illegals entering the U.S annually. A significant percentage also die trying. In January...