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...Crimson was slow getting out of the starting gate; the team did not seize their first lead until nearly 18 minutes into the game. From that point on, however, Harvard never trailed...
...Monterrey, 15 Mexican drug agents spent most of Jan. 14 crouched outside a walled ranch house. The agents had received a critical tip: Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps a third of the cocaine consumed...
...Gate of Heavenly Peace also focuses on Tiananmen Square itself as a place rich in historic and symbolic meaning. The largest square in the world, Tiananmen is where Mao announced the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and since then has been the center of the country's political life. Forty years later, Tiananmen Square would become the site for the student pro-democracy movement's challenge to the Party's increasingly questionable political practices...
...demonstrators, and the situation is aggravated when Party officials refuse to have serious, face-to-face discussions with student leaders. It was this critical look at the Communist bureaucracy which led Chinese officials to withdraw their entry to the New York Film Festival--Ang Lee's Shanghai Triad--because Gate was being premeried there...
...documentary succeeds in its even-handed presentation of both sides of the Tiananmen story. The film is neither a propogandistic image boost for the Communist party nor a sentimental idealization of the students as martyrs dying for an honorable cause. Rather, The Gate of Heavenly Peace painstakingly chronicles the complexities, of history--it's vicissitudes, surprises, victories and failures--as any great documentary should...