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...wasn’t only poor shooting that hurt the Crimson, but poor shot selection as well. Nineteen of Harvard’s 28 first-half shots were three-point attempts, only five of which connected...
Because the protagonist, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), enters the prison at the age of nineteen after dropping out of school at eleven, the film isn’t as much a gangster picture as it is a bildungsroman. He doesn’t just learn how to kill people, or how to build a drug empire from the inside; El Djebena also learns how to read and write. Through his brief encounters on the outside, he also discovers what there is to live for in the real world...
...children from a Melbourne family, Garnaut stumbled into restaurant work out of necessity, contributing to household income in an effort to ensure that all her siblings were fed and clothed. She arrived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s as a backpacker and almost immediately found herself working for Nineteen 97. It was a bar, restaurant and café located in what was then an obscure back alley downtown, but has since mushroomed into fame as the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district. Garnaut became Nineteen 97's highly visible manager during its heyday as a watering hole for bankers, socialites...
...More than 30 plaintiffs, including former Sobibor inmates and relatives of those killed, are attending the trial in Munich. Nineteen will give evidence in the case. But it's unlikely that anyone will be able to identify Demjanjuk after 66 years - one of the main obstacles that prosecutors face. There are no living witnesses who can tie him to specific killings, so prosecutors will have to rely on past statements from witnesses who are now deceased and written documents. If convicted, Demjanjuk faces up to 15 years in prison - the usual maximum sentence in Germany. (See pictures of the faces...
...that was hit hardest by the trade crash - Asia - has been actively opening up its regional markets. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the number of free-trade agreements (FTAs) signed by Asian countries has grown from just three in 2000 to 56 by the end of August. Nineteen of those FTAs are among 16 Asian economies, a trend that could help the region become a powerful trading bloc. "Asian integration is sort of a dream, but it is much more realistic than it was before," says Ganeshan Wignaraja, an ADB economist. "There is a move toward making...