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...outmaneuvering the Russian army during the Second World War. I also remember an account from 1943 of a group of Norwegian commandos who successfully skied overland all the way to Sweden (over 250 miles) after blowing up a Nazi heavy water facility that was a key component in Hitler's attempt to manufacture an atomic bomb. More than a few sports have some type of military component (e.g., the marathon), but the vision of my Nordic brethren frustrating totalitarian invaders using superior tactics, marksmanship and skill on skis completed the intoxicating vision. By late 1999 there was no doubt: Biathlon...
...gets in a fight with journalists. As all brave reporters would, they react by running like scared rabbits 'N SYNC Boy band to be Jedi in next Star Wars film, only to get blown up in seconds. And just like that, George Lucas makes up for Phantom Menace ADOLF HITLER Evil dictator deposed as world's most hated man by bin Laden. Not to worry, he still holds a slight lead on world's most hated facial hair...
...Gospel of John, and the church has allowed, encouraged and--in the case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that had renounced the faith, but Carroll portrays Hitler as the heir to such church-sanctioned haters as St. John Chrysostom and Torquemada. "By tapping into a deep, ever-fresh reservoir of Christian hatred of Jews," he writes, the German dictator made the Catholic Church "an accomplice in history's worst crime...
...since African American Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has a footrace been freighted with so much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was an Aboriginal seeking glory, and baldly admitting that she sought it not only for her country but for her people. Four hundred meters is a distance that allows tension to build, and when Freeman came off the near turn trailing, it was almost unbearable. Then she surged, and won. The audience...
...center, as Capt. Henry St. James (The Captain's Paradise, 1953). Clockwise from top left: Herbert Pocket (Great Expectations, 1946); Agatha d'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...