Word: noms
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...dances very well, in the Western style," a colleague recalled. Short attributes this duality to a "gift for subterfuge"?Pol Pot was so secretive that many mid-level Khmer Rouge officials did not know his real identity until two years after he had seized power. (Pol Pot is a nom de guerre adopted in 1970.) "You could not tell from his face what he was feeling," said Ieng Sary, the former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister. "Many people misunderstood that?he would smile his unruffled smile, and then they would be taken away and executed...
...Marine Corps News reported in January 2003, "The Marines of the current Echo Company have recently been given the green light ... to refer to their company once again, in all but official matters, as Easy Company." Reason: during World War II, the company's original nom de guerre was Easy Company. The unit fought tenaciously in the Battle of Tarawa and other key actions, and as the Marine Corps News noted, "the unit's current Marines felt a need to establish a link to that history." Terry Kindlon of Albany, New York, was one of several readers who questioned...
...qualified to expose Mafia secrets as Brasco and Hill. Brasco is the nom de mob for undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, whose 1988 autobiography became a movie starring Johnny Depp; Hill's story was first penned by author Nicholas Pileggi in 1985, then made into GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese. Both turned on la famiglia--Brasco ratted out the Bonannos; Hill, the Luccheses--and both have been keeping a lower profile ever since...
...this year, I counted no less than seven certified jaw-droppers in the big categories: Director and Screenplay nominations for City of God, an obscure Brazilian film released back in January 2003; a Screenplay nom for The Barbarian Invasions, a French-language movie from Canada; two Acting nominationss and a Screenplay nod for In America, a small film with no star wattage; and a freak Best Actress nomination for 13-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who became the youngest nominee in the category’s history...
...repressed by Saddam's regime after it began gaining adherents in Iraq a decade ago. A Salafist who claims to be a "manager" of an insurgent cell based near Balad says his group is part of a resistance movement called Mujahedi al-Salafiyah. The man, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, says the Salafists model themselves on the mujahedin who drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 1980s and on other international jihad movements. He says the Salafists have forged links with their former nemeses in the Fedayeen Saddam militia on the condition that they renounce...