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Often, the dream is to fly: on skis (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) or in an airship (The White Diamond) or in a U.S. Navy plane (Little Dieter Needs to Fly). That last film--about a German boy who arrived in America with the dream of flying, flew missions over Vietnam, was captured and tortured, and escaped--had so much natural drama that Herzog turned it into a "real" movie, Rescue Dawn, with Christian Bale as Dieter...
...that he couldn't illuminate St. Louis's famous Gateway Arch with pink floodlights to highlight breast cancer awareness month because the rangers feared it would create a precedent for other national monuments, Talent passed a Senate bill authorizing him to do so. Earlier this month, Laura Bush flew in from Washington to flip the switch on the pink lights. Talent told onlookers, "Soon we will be able to find a cure to this life-threatening disease that affects nearly two million women in the United States...
Anti-sugar activists have had some success, at least at the bookstore. The granddaddy of the genre, Sugar Blues by William Dufty, came out in 1975 and flew to No. 1 on the best-sellers list. Sugar Busters, which became a publishing phenomenon in 1995, boasts more than 5 million copies in print...
...Flags flew for unsportsmanlike conduct, and the Tigers got a much-needed first down that would lead to the game-winning touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Brendan Circle with 4:37 remaining in the game...
...this season late in the fourth quarter Harvard led 28-24 on a Princeton third and four in Crimson territory. On the play senior free safety Danny Tanner broke up a pass to junior tailback Rob Toresco, and proceeded to turn toward his team and hit his chest. Flags flew for unsportsmanlike conduct, and the Tigers got a much-needed first down that would lead to the game winning touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Brendan Circle with 4:37 remaining in the game.“I’m not anybody who gets down on officials...