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...date. Dan Gordon's Irena's Vow, starring Tovah Feldshuh as a Polish-Catholic woman who saves a dozen Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in the cellar of the SS officer's house where she works as a housekeeper, seems just as old hat: an earnest but clumsily staged Holocaust melodrama of the sort we've seen many times before, and usually better...
...political influence across the continent. The DRC, which is the size of Western Europe and is the world's largest French-speaking nation, is also fantastically rich in resources, and could logically be expected to partner with France when restored stability allows economic and industrial development to begin in earnest. Exchanges between the two countries now stand at a modest $250 million per year; but that might be boosted as a result of a trip on which Sarkozy was accompanied by officials from construction firms Lafarge and Vinci, France Telecom, Aeroports de Paris, and Alstom...
...version will be another stud? "The design is very contemporary," says Ed Welburn, GM's chief designer. Welburn says he specifically instructed GM's stylists to retain the spirit of the old Camaro from the 1960s but not to try to replicate it. Work on the Camaro started in earnest in 2006 after GM had launched a major restructuring of its operations around the world. Consequently, Gene Stefanyshyn, the GM executive in charge of the project, moved to Australia to oversee the re-engineering of a rear-wheel-drive chassis that its Holden auto subsidiary had sold in small quantities...
Quincy letters are generally expected to generate loud cheering and extreme happiness. This is standard. But most of this year's recipients--with the exception of a couple of Greenough groups--remained strangely apathetic, with one girl even shooing the earnest upperclassmen away from her door. The Quincyites made several attempts to infiltrate frosh rooms in order to elevate the excitement, but to no avail: most newbies stood around rather awkwardly, accepting their fate happily but not emoting much more...
...Atwood was killed during an SLA shootout with Los Angeles police in May 1974, Soliah used the pulpit at a Berkeley rally to issue an impassioned speech in which dubbed policemen "pigs," preached solidarity with the SLA and urged the group to "keep fighting." She joined the cause in earnest in 1975. A quarter-century later, she copped to involvement in two crimes committed that year: a bank robbery near Sacramento in which a customer, Myrna Opsahl, was fatally shot; and the planting of two pipe bombs beneath police cars. (They failed to detonate and were successfully defused...