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...camera as that he also carried it." And what do we see in "Beneath the Valley"? A shot of Russ, carrying his camera up a mountain. Actually, since this is one of the last shots in Meyer's last feature film, it has in retrospect the tone of a distant wave goodbye from a grizzled old friend...
When Musharraf led his bloodless coup, he wasn't considered a ruthless strongman or an unusually cunning operator. Many hoped he would put corrupt officials on trial and restore some political freedoms. In his first two years in power, however, he fumbled that goal, allowing democracy to remain a distant, foggy ideal. Then came Sept. 11. He was asked by George Bush to help bring down the Taliban, a group nurtured by the Pakistan government and military. The decisive repositioning of Pakistan by Musharraf won him a new reputation for deft statesmanship. In the 1971 war with India, the President...
...cause. So did Dr. Patch Adams. Adams worked in the er at St. Elizabeths, a Washington mental hospital, during the '70s and '80s. Previously, in 1963, he was himself a patient at a psychiatric hospital for two weeks. He says he learned more from fellow patients than the distant doctors, and he felt a personal connection to Yoder's case. "I wasn't bullied by his intensity, as I think many are," he says...
...still gets excited when she talks about flying. She is one of the few women certified to fly aviation's biggest bird, the Boeing 747. "It's a pilot's ego plane," she says. "I still get a thrill out of cranking it up and taking off for distant places...
...Eastern Sprints and Temple Cup title for the freshman boat seemed distant back in April, when the frosh fell to Navy and Princeton in two of its first three races. Freshman coach Bill Manning says that experience revealed areas where the crew needed improvement, but by season’s end, they matured...