Word: falling
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...story of an HIV-infected mother bringing up her daughter in dirt-poor KwaZulu Natal. In 2007 came Bunny Chow, a hip black-and-white comedy about three comedians traveling to a festival that recalled early Spike Lee. Last year featured Jerusalema, a sophisticated thriller about the rise and fall of a Johannesburg slumlord - a kind of South African American Gangster - which made its star, Rapulana Seiphemo, the new face of South African cinema. Later this year Seiphemo teams up with Tsotsi's Nkosi in White Wedding, a road movie that, with impressive maturity, plays apartheid's legacy of racial...
...Harvard sailing team’s season is a marathon.It seems rather appropriate, then, that Marathon Monday takes place every year in the heart of the Crimson sailing squad’s spring schedule.With a fall season beginning at the start of the school year in early September and a spring portion finishing in early June, both the co-ed and women’s teams are faced with a rather long competition schedule. The Harvard sailors must possess great endurance in competing virtually every weekend throughout the spring, and just as the closing miles of a 26.2 mile course...
...impact on the torture victim's mind was lasting. After Pinochet's fall in 1990, the new civilian government in Chile investigated incidents of alleged torture, and found deep scars. Years after they were tortured, submarino victims were still haunted. A 2007 study in the International Review of the Red Cross found that "the acute suffering produced during the immediate infliction of the submarino is superseded by the often unbearable fear of repeating the experience. In the aftermath, it may lead to horrific memories that persist in the form of recurrent 'drowning nightmares.'" As one Chilean who was tortured...
...gathered press had no doubt that Schabowski's statement meant the end of the Berlin Wall. The news quickly spread and brought thousands of people to the border crossings where they demanded to pass. The border guards eventually gave in. (See TIME's cover story on the wall's fall...
...Wilke says the new information is an interesting twist in the events that led to the fall of the Wall. But he doesn't believe that Germany's past needs to be re-written completely. "That Ehrmann asked the question is what matters," he says. The rest is history...