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Often, the dream is to fly: on skis (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) or in an airship (The White Diamond) or in a U.S. Navy plane (Little Dieter Needs to Fly). That last film--about a German boy who arrived in America with the dream of flying, flew missions over Vietnam, was captured and tortured, and escaped--had so much natural drama that Herzog turned it into a "real" movie, Rescue Dawn, with Christian Bale as Dieter...
...more for the prestigious prizes endowed by his estate than for his invention of that deadly staple of modern armies, TNT. Many more people are aware of Rhodes Scholarships than the career of the brilliant imperialist and racist Cecil Rhodes, who founded them with the profits from his African diamond mines. And in the course of just a decade, Bill Gates has managed to transform his image from visionary but cutthroat capitalist to transcendent philanthropist, by the efforts of his $32 billion foundation to tackle disease and poverty in Africa...
...good old-fashioned bench-clearer, in order to defend your teammate or your pride, is a time-honored baseball tradition. Players like Billy Martin made a (good) reputation on being willing to mix it up on the diamond...
...truck to arrive and take him back to Boston.Winston says that he finds the system “ridiculous” because he thinks that students who are summoned for jury duty are often not selected to serve in the actual trial.But Visiting Professor of Law Shari S. Diamond says that students are just as likely to be chosen as anybody else. “The rap is that [students] are not going to be selected because you are too bright, and people are going to be afraid of you,” Diamond says. But she said that...
...Montreux: Beyond the Blues The annual Montreux music bash is much more than just jazz The Gaza Strip's Diamond in the Rough Dare to discover the Gaza Strip's most elegant - and peaceful - refuge A Taste of Sichuan London's Ba Shan restaurant serves small dishes inspired by the street food of Sichuan Making a Spectacle Have your glasses designed exclusively for you Dutch Treat Amsterdam's pivotal role in the emergence of conceptual art Two techniques have shown particular promise when it comes to fulfilling this goal. The first is known as micro-oxygenation?the slow release...