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...Brittain Bolen '00 became managing editor and G. Cabot Henderson '00 is the Salient's new business manager...
...only candidates absent from the event were presidential candidate God-frey L.C. Henderson '00 and vice-presidential candidate Alexander M. Carter...
Welcome to Sarajevo is painfully alert to this bitter contradiction. You read it first in Dillane's wary eyes, the weary set of his shoulders, the willed affectlessness of his voice. His Henderson is based on a real British TV journalist named Michael Nicholson, who covered 15 wars in 25 years, and the actor carries the weight of that experience, the need somehow to shift it, most affectingly...
...begins with his determination to make the struggles of an orphanage the center of his coverage. This is not, by the standards of TV, a very sexy story--not compared with carnage in the streets--but he sticks with it. Before he quite realizes what he's doing, Henderson is adopting Emira (played by Emira Nusevic, herself a child of the war), getting her out of the country via a terrifying bus ride through country controlled by Serb guerrillas, then voluntarily, dangerously returning to Sarajevo a year later to complete legal adoption, ensuring that she never has to make this...
...gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral act but as a rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure his survival as a fully human being. He is surprised, puzzled by his own grace under pressure. The movie, in turn, respects his mystery...