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...film tells the story of a young Jewish woman named Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) whose resistance name is Ellis de Vries. After seeing her family betrayed and butchered as they attempt to flee Holland, she joins the underground and is asked to seduce the local Gestapo Leader (Sebastian Koch, lately of The Lives of Others). Soon she's planting a microphone in his office - and falling authentically in love with this civilized, slightly depressive man, who fastidiously ignores what's going on in the torture chambers beneath his headquarters...
...spots. But a skeptical public is increasingly looking at ways to protect themselves. The topic comes up often in casual party chat and on Internet forums; a typical post on nola.com, the New Orleans Times- Picayune Web site, bears the heading "Armed Citizens Rule!" and reads, "would-be predators flee when a legally carried gun is presented instead of a wallet...
...French resistance heroine Lucie Aubrac was the stuff of action novels. With her husband Raymond, who survives her, she founded Liberation Sud, one of the first networks set up by the Resistance, which sought to foil the Nazis during World War II. Before the couple was able to flee to London in 1944, Lucie engineered several of Raymond's escapes from prison--once by smuggling him a virus that enabled him to wriggle away en route to a hospital. The subject of the 1997 hit film Lucie Aubrac, she was given France's highest award, the Legion of Honor...
...unidentified man broke into a second-story suite at 20 DeWolfe St. early yesterday morning—only to flee after a surprise encounter with one of its residents. This marks the second time that the room has been broken into this academic year. The man, wearing a gray New England Patriots cap and a black leather jacket, entered the suite at approximately 5:17 a.m., according to resident Ho A. Tuan ’09, who had just returned from a late-night study session. Tuan said that he and the stranger stared speechlessly at each other...
...THEY FLEE THE STOCK MARKET...