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...unwaveringly critical lens. Even the upcoming Valkyrie, a Tom Cruise movie about a German officer who tried to kill Hitler, focuses mainly on the horrors of war. Der Rote Baron, by contrast, portrays its combatant hero in a positive light. "It's a remarkable movie," the Baron's nephew, Manfred von Richthofen, told Die Welt this week. "Somehow it did not turn into a war film. The personality and especially the thoughtfulness of my uncle are true to life...
...works contracts - deemed "socially useful" jobs by a state welfare scheme - with a monthly stipend of $770. A father of five, he says he has had to supplement his income with cash-paid day jobs in construction: "You do your best to support your family." Meanwhile, Mayor Melfi's nephew, Sergio Zaccaria, 27, a business major at Roma Tre University in the nation's capital, says he is not likely to come back to live in Amendolara. "Young people here are bitter that we can't maximize our ability," he says. "So, many of us will never be able...
...brother Orestes composed a tune called El Danzón Mambo, which later rocketed to popularity simply as the mambo when the pace was slowed for dancing. His freestyle jam sessions paved the way for groups like the Buena Vista Social Club, with whom his nephew now plays bass. Throughout his career, López was revered by fellow musicians, but he was launched to international fame when Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia featured him in documentaries and produced his albums, including the 2004 Grammy-winning Ahora...
...display is to say thank you to the men and women who are serving our country," one Air Force veteran wrote, "or if it's intended to bring attention to the audacity and stupidity of our elected leaders." One woman pulled into the driveway bearing a photograph of her nephew, killed in action the day before. Another day, a Marine in uniform got out of his car to stand at attention and salute. Another day, the phone rang and Ann heard a woman on the line announce, "My son is one of those flags...
...sole consolation for being sent to that era's equivalent of the moon was that he'd find it easier there to feed the addiction that threatened to ruin him: collecting insects from the antipodes. In an exquisite introductory essay, Ashley Hay tells how Alexander's son William and nephew William John succumbed to the same mania, piling up butterflies and beetles, bats, gnats and bandicoots, corals and sea lilies, cuscuses and birds of paradise (William John led and paid for the colony's first scientific expedition to New Guinea), and a skull long thought to belong to a (mythical...