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...struck from his grave. On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in the Samarkand crypt opened the sarcophagus to study the body and found the inscription: "Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Five weeks after the great Emir was reinterred in 1942, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad...
...French word veuve (widow) also means guillotine. In 1850 a killer (Emir Kusturica) is condemned to death by guillotine, on an island where there is no such device; the local captain (Daniel Auteuil) must send away for one. Meanwhile, the killer ingratiates himself with the townsfolk, especially the captain's wife (Juliette Binoche). Issues of life and death, love and friendship play out delicately and powerfully. Binoche is especially subtle and radiant in another splendid drama from Leconte...
ARRESTED. PAUL BURRELL, 42, former butler to the late Princess Diana, over the alleged theft of a wedding present she received from the Emir of Bahrain; in Chester, England. Burrell, who worked for the Princess for 10 years and was described by her as "my rock" for his loyalty and devotion, was questioned following the discovery of the gift, a jewel-encrusted model boat, for sale in a London antique shop last year. He has turned down several lucrative offers to write a tell-all book of his time with Diana...
...When we got to Kuwait City, we figured that the place to go was the Emir's palace. The Kuwaiti resistance hadn't shown up. A watchman there said don't go in, it might be booby-trapped. But we went in slowly, carefully, looking for trip wires or other signs of booby traps. There weren't any. Eventually, we got to the Emir's bedroom. It was covered by about three feet of emptied jewelry boxes. Everything had been taken - the refrigerated cabinets to hold the furs were empty. The only thing the Iraqis didn't take were...
...Lilian I. Childress, Aarup A. Kubal, Anup A. Kubal, Peter K. Park, Sarah E.M. Wood and Ellen Yeh of Currier House; Ellen J. Guldi of Dudley House; Anne L. Berry, Brian T. Shaffer and Benjamin R. Sloop of Dunster House; Eileen K. Bent, Seth D. Familian, Eric Fleisig-Greene, Emir Kamenica, Roman Martinez and Jamie R. Vance of Eliot House; Claire E. Farley, Kevin C. Gold, Robert F. Luo and Sarah E. Mattson of Kirkland House; Mia M. Edwards, Lee D. Feigenbaum, J. Alejandro Longoria and Thomas H. Lotze of Leverett House; Adam I. Arenson, Soman S. Chainani and Daryl...