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...freaked out.” Pellegrini added that the infant came out headfirst and that there seemed to be no complications with the actual birth. The woman held the baby closely until the paramedics arrived, according to Reed. Following the birth, the woman handed over keys to the van, frantically directing Pellegrini to drive her to the hospital. Soon after, the students spotted a Cambridge Police Department cruiser driving up Garden Street and flagged it down.. “She was much calmer after she saw the first police officer,” Reed said, noting that the woman...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: En Route to ROTC, 2 Navy Men Become Midwives | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...chasing after conflicts, and struggling to assert its role as an influence and reference in the war to advance Islam in the world," Jacquard says. "Before that it looked both late and calculating in supporting Hamas. At least by appearance, traditional al-Qaeda leaders at times look frantic trying to get back to center stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Televangelists Don't Scare Paris | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

Seduced and Abandoned Pietro Germi Germi's lunareclipse of a dark comedy, which followed his Divorce Italian Style, suggests Preston Sturges run riot in Sicily. In this lunatic 1964 retooling of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (unwanted pregnancy, frantic attempt to get the girl married, small town in an uproar), Botticelli-beautiful Stefania Sandrelli is Agnese, a lamb led to the slaughter of her ideals by a father, a family and a society that values honor (status) over honesty. Germi's tireless cinematic inventiveness matches his furious pace in a magnificent satire that leaves the viewer exhausted, angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Marvelous Movies You May Have Missed | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...other refugees from the area, it's a ghost town. She fled with her two sisters this morning after the shelling grew particularly intense. She said they walked for four hours "with the clothes on our backs" but her other two sisters eventually fell behind. She is now frantic to find out what happened to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Diary: Fleeing Bint Jbeil | 7/25/2006 | See Source »

...night I watch the Lebanese news channels and their footage of bombings, bloodied children and frantic civilians trying to help their countrymen into ambulances. I see the weeping women and scared kids. But I don't see Beirut anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Beirut | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

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