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European Heroes The story on Dr. Ervigio Corral Torres, head of SAMUR, Madrid's emergency-services unit, praised his efforts after the March 11 attacks in Madrid [Oct. 11]. But several emergency services were involved that day, and all of them - including SERMAS (the Madrid Health Service), the Red Cross and the Civil Protection unit - worked as hard as SAMUR. Because of the large number of injured, even more services from nearby areas were called, and their help was invaluable. I am a Red Cross volunteer, and I believe that, since we emergency workers undergo training to prepare...
Slowly becoming a local legend, Four Eyes Joke Shop focuses on the amusing, perverse and possibly grotesque—think cross-dressing Marilyn Monroe or Can-Can Girls. “Our slant is not fright, it’s funny,” says manager Valerie Pontbriand. While costumes such as “Hot Shit,” “Holy Shit” and “Crock of Shit” and a selection of over 10,000 accessories draw people to the shop, it is the energetic and amused attitude of its employees that...
...don’t want to have a Harvard stamp on this because we want to organize a disparate group of people, so it’s important we get a cross-campus presence,” Karvounis said...
...another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids by her business-traveling husband. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is abandoned emotionally by her rich spouse. They get mad and get even, through affairs, subterfuge, even poisoning. When her husband asks for a divorce, Bree (Marcia Cross) serves him a salad with onions, to which he's deathly allergic...
...FILM ANALOGOUS TO THE CURRENT WAR ON TERRORISM? After 9/11, the President asked for a chart of al-Qaeda managers so that as we captured them, he could cross out their names. I had a flashback to the movie where the French colonel, Mathieu, crosses out the names of terrorists, thinking he is winning. I thought, Oh, my God, the President wants to do the same thing--probably with the same degree of success...