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When Jules Naudet, 28, set out on Sept. 11, 2001, with the New York fire department's Engine 7, Ladder 1, he was not expecting to record history. In fact, he was not expecting to record a fire. Since May, with his brother Gedeon, 31, Jules had been shooting a documentary about a rookie fire fighter. When a call came to check out a gas odor, Jules, the less experienced cameraman of the pair, tagged along for "camera practice." He ended up shooting inside hell, racing with the fire fighters downtown and into the lobby of the tower, as debris...
...athletic department says the travails of the club team are symptoms of a space crunch that must inevitably put club sports below varsity and junior varsity teams on the priority ladder...
...DIDN?T START THE FIRE: On May 29, Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
...Japan Research Institute, an economic think tank, if Japanese companies continue to shift production to China at the rate they are now, Japan's envied $48.96 billion trade surplus will slip away entirely and become a deficit within five years. "Japan has to move up the economic ladder, and shift trade from goods to services and intellectual property," Xie says, "unless it wants to go back to being a poor country again...
...since that game, Princeton has slid down the Ivy ladder, and playing its next four games on the road may not help. All the same, there are a number of menacing Tigers to be reckoned with...