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...Eastwood's portrayal of the specific battle is, if narrow, also essentially accurate. Flags Of Our Fathers zeroes in on the soldiers who hoisted the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, and this task, memorialized in a famous staged photograph, was accomplished by five white servicemen and a sixth, Ira Hayes, of Pima Indian descent. (His other entry in the Iwo Jima category, Letters from Iwo Jima, is told largely from the perspective of Japanese soldiers...
...original version of this article stated the servicemen who raised the U.S flag over Mount Suribachi were white. One of those six, Ira Hayes, was an Arizona Pima Indian...
...miss canned clams. You can't get those in France. Grits and canned clams. And I miss National Public Radio. Ira [Glass] usually sends me CDs of This American Life...
...best is yet to come. Hopefully.After a tough dual racing season and a disappointing finish at Eastern Sprints, where the varsity eight failed to make the Grand Final for the first time in 44 years, the Crimson looks to end its season on a high note at the IRA National Championships and 143rd Annual Harvard-Yale Regatta.“As far as IRAs, that’s our greatest concern right now,” captain six-seat Joe Medioli said. “There’s no doubt in our minds that we not only have...
...worth of work into one six-minute piece,” captain and second varsity seven-seat Pat Mulcahy said. “There’s a hole lot more that goes into it.”The Harvard lightweights will next take to the water in the IRA National Championships to be held June 5-7 in Camden, N.J. There, the Crimson crews will have a shot at redemption when they take on the teams that they have raced throughout the season and at Eastern Sprints. —Staff writer Lucy D. Chen can be reached...