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...just enough time to say goodbye to his loving wife Grace (Portman) and their two bright young daughters and to fetch from prison his wastrel brother Tommy (Gyllenhaal), who is at the end of his sentence for assaulting a bank teller. Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, Sam's plane is shot down and crashes; he and his men are believed dead, and Grace soon gets the awful news. In fact, he and another Marine have been captured by a Taliban group. They are tortured, forced to spill secrets and, at riflepoint, pushed into a life-or-death dilemma. Back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brothers: A Family at War with Itself | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...Gophers would board the plane back to the Twin Cities without having scored on a Crimson team that opened its season...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson, Kessler Shut Out No. 2 Gophers At Bright For Second Consecutive Time | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...parents say they have already purchased a plane ticket back home to Seattle for their daughter. (See the top 10 crime duos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amanda Knox, Convicted of Murder in Italy | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Only a day after graduating from Harvard College, Kiran K. Deol ’06, a first-time filmmaker, boarded a plane to begin working on a documentary charting the life of a female guerrilla fighter in Nepal...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deol’s Film On Oscar Shortlist | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...jumpers, firefighters who parachute into remote blazes, often in deep wilderness. His first attempt was less than perfect--which was perhaps not surprising, considering that he had never been in an airplane before he took his practice runs. In July 1940, Cooley and a colleague leaped out of a plane over a fire in Idaho. Cooley's parachute lines became tangled on the way down, and he landed in the branches of a spruce tree. But the pair brought the blaze under control by the following morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earl Cooley | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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