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...commander Nuruludah says, he saw women being forced onto trucks by Pakistani members of al-Qaeda, so he gathered 10 men, ambushed the trucks and released the women. In Jalalabad too, a few local Taliban eventually stormed the camp and freed the women who remained there. These were the heroic exceptions. For others, apparently, the profound degradation of women seemed perfectly tolerable...
...Pentagon loves Ridley Scott's film, and with good reason: It shows the truly heroic efforts of a small band of American soldiers fighting against thousands of Mogadishu residents in a 1993 street battle that killed 1,000 Somalis and 17 Americans. But Mark Bowden's meticulously researched text also tells the Somali point of view, the other, equally important half of the story. What emerges here is that while the Americans believed they were simply embarked on a noble mission to ensure that food reached the hungry, many Somalis saw the U.S. forces as intruders meddling aggressively in their...
...indeed wholly founded—on the strength of the gorgeous daguerreotypes of them and the lithographs copied from these, but they are overwhelmed by the star of this show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater’s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing short of rapt attention. He must...
...Israeli literature, the characters are always heroic and sure and responsible and moral—they are always better than me,” Keret said. But in his stories, there is ambiguity and uncertainty. Especially when it comes to love...
...knew Dartmouth had a deep team, so there was a lot of pressure on [Wadha and Lal],” co-captain Colby Hall said. “Both played amazing squash and made heroic efforts...