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Freshman Sara Williamson became the newest hero for the women's softball team Tuesday, driving in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning against Boston University (28-12, 15-3 America East) for a 5-4 victory, and the Crimson's fifth...
...ACQUITTED. LIEUT. COLONEL OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO, a hero of the 1974 pro-democracy revolution that ended dictatorship in Portugal, after a 17-year-long terrorism trial; by a court in Lisbon...
...Many of McVeigh's victims have voiced opposition to making his death public, even if they plan to watch it themselves. "It's a certifiable example, the epitome of a narcissist, to believe the American people would be interested in his execution like he's this great hero," says Paul Heath, a Veterans Affairs psychologist who was working on the fifth floor of the building McVeigh destroyed with a truck bomb. He, and others like him, insist that executions should remain a private matter between the killers and the relatives - not public spectacles...
Perhaps the most miraculous thing about Little Boys Come from the Stars, however, is not the unlikely birth of its hero, but the birth of the novel itself. In 1997, civil war erupted in the Congo between the supporters of rival presidential candidates (derisively referred to in the novel as “Professor P-75,” the pseudo-scientist and “Tata Tollah,” the maniacal religious demagogue). The author, then a professor of chemistry at the University of Brazzaville in the Congo, rushed back to the Congo from a sojourn in Connecticut...
...government official, for example, the fact that he had done serious university studies.” The best parts of the novel are like this, bubbling with youthful perceptiveness and humor. Dongala’s evocation of Matapari’s early teenage years, with its agonizing mixture of hero-worship and romantic political musings, is occasionally dead...