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...threat in the streets of our own cities than it was in Cambodia." In "The Killing Fields," Ngor portrayed Dith Pran, an aide to New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the Vietnam War. The actor actually had lived through strikingly similar horrors, as both were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge regime that killed millions of Cambodians. In a recent memoir, he wrote of watching his wife die in childbirth because had he revealed his training as a doctor, he would have been executed. "Maybe in my last life before this one, I did something wrong to hurt people," Ngor...
...Paris in 1920. (It would always infuriate Brancusi that Princess X was interpreted as a penis and testicles rather than a woman's head, neck and breasts, but of course the sculpture is richer for its double meaning.) Because his work was deeply influenced by classical Indian and Khmer sculpture, it may be that the Eastern practice of gilding the effigy of the Buddha--gold being a symbol of supreme reality--prompted his use of high polish. But there is no doubt about its results...
This program allowed Pond to share his story of personal struggle, which included witnessing his nine-year-old friends axed to death by the Khmer Rouge and coping with the death of nine of his 11 siblings...
...come until 2070. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, photographers in hot-air balloons to catch the shadows of the eclipse as they passed over the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra. In Cambodia, hundreds of tourists and Cambodians were protected by 30,000 soldiers from possible Khmer Rouge attacks, as they gathered to watch the eclipse against the backdrop of the fabled temples of Angkor Wat. And in Thailand, Princess Sirindhorn, daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, led tens of thousands in an observation ceremony broadcast live on television...
...come until 2070. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, photographers in hot-air balloons to catch the shadows of the eclipse as they passed over the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra. In Cambodia, hundreds of tourists and Cambodians were protected by 30,000 soldiers from possible Khmer Rouge attacks, as they gathered to watch the eclipse against the backdrop of the fabled temples of Angkor Wat. And in Thailand, Princess Sirindhorn, daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, led tens of thousands in an observation ceremony broadcast live on television...