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...Brescia. Sandro (the exceptional first-time actor Matteo Gadola) is the only child of a loving couple (Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon) who run a factory that employs mostly immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One night, on a yacht excursion with his dad and uncle, Sandro falls overboard and, when his absence isn't noticed, prepares to die. He calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama!" as a prayer. He bequeaths his worldly goods -"except for The Lord of the Rings" -to a girl he has a crush on at school. Then he sinks ... and is rescued by Radu (Vlad...
...became the first to formally defy his proudest domestic achievement. The legislature passed a bill that lets Utah schools ignore the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law if its mandates conflict with state priorities or require state money to meet them. "They didn't bring tea to drop overboard, but that's about all that was missing," says a satisfied Patti Harrington, state superintendent of public instruction...
...hushed whisper: “My fair lady!” Confused, we headed up Mount Auburn Street to investigate. Sure enough, the upper Gold Coast was chock-a-block with police cars, ambulances, firefighters, the works. Had the flambé chef at Finale gone a little overboard on his last crème brulée? Or did the illegal microbrewery in the Spee basement finally catch fire? (Kidding!) We tried asking the man in blue directing sidewalk traffic away from the Holyoke Center patio, but he was stayin’ mum. Finally, an obliging onlooker gave...
...Navy doctor and Air Force psychiatrist, both of whom concluded that he was not under the influence of drugs and was competent to decide what he wanted to do. While his ship's skipper, its doctor and two Soviet diplomats watched, Medvid insisted that he had merely fallen overboard and had no intention of deserting...
...some, craft consciousness has a political aspect. "There is a glut of cheap sweatshop-produced clothing out there, and it's so easy to go overboard and buy too much of it," says Shoshana Berger, founder and editor of ReadyMade magazine, a bimonthly based in Berkeley, Calif., that provides 100,000 readers mainly in their 20s and 30s with a slate of fashion, home and garden projects. "Not only are people recognizing that this mass-produced stuff is unimaginative, they're also feeling guilty about supporting unfair labor practices...