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Today, the highly anticipated film “300,” a Frank Miller graphic novel adapted into a “Sin City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand...
...When midnight arrived on March6, 1957, church bells sounded across Accra. The crowds, which had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union flag was lowered and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last the battle...
...reliving that 24-hour work experience. "Friends think I'm sold on the Kool-Aid," she says. "But at midnight there are others working alongside me. Here I have the energy like I'm working with my family: you butt heads sometimes, but at the end of the day you're all about sink or swim...
...Later that afternoon, a Black Hawk helicopter began circling the hilltop. In the guesthouse at the crossroads, owner Elfrida Barros gathered her five children around her in bed. "I was thinking that the big helicopter will bomb us and kill us all," she told TIME. Around midnight, she and other residents heard the sound of tramping boots. As soldiers moved toward the compound, the Black Hawk was joined by a second helicopter. At about 1:45 a.m., they landed in the corn patch tended by Jose Francisco and his family, 50 m below the rebel compound. Francisco says...
...don’t even know what [the technical crew] does. Before I came to Harvard I had never done any backstage stuff except for high school theatre, helping out with costumes or a little painting, but nothing like this.... [Last night] I was home at eight, before that midnight, before that nine. And my roommates will ask me why I did it. They definitely don’t get it. Sometimes I don’t understand it when things are behind or problems come up, as they always do. But when the curtain opens–that?...