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...practically is. Three of the Academy?s five Best Pics - Brokeback, Capote and Good Night - are also up for the top Spirit award tomorrow. If one of those three wins both, it would be just the second time in history (Platoon, in 1987, is so far the one and only). Most of the prime contenders in big categories have taken oodles of critics? prizes, yet attracted fewer paying customers than, say, Spielberg?s other movie of 2005, War of the Worlds...
...DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them...
...whose leg was injured a few weeks ago while serving a tour of duty in Iraq, the war is a daily reality.Morris, who was a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps as an undergraduate in Cabot House, arrived in Iraq in late September and led an infantry platoon of about 30 soldiers that patrolled the streets looking for bombs and suspicious activity.Two weeks ago, during a routine day of driving his Humvee patrolling the streets, Morris’ vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, according to his friend and classmate, Second Lieutenant James S. Foreman...
...about the precautions. "All my neighbors are going to vote," said Salim, a 22-year-old student in line at the school. He said he had felt safe walking to the polls because "the police and army are everywhere." That much was confirmed as the reporters left, when a platoon of Iraqi soldiers, commanded by an Iraqi officer, entered the polling station on a routine check...
...Diego and Tijuana,” Brooks says. “I threw up for the next fifteen minutes.” After he graduates, Brooks will go on to further officer training, and by next year, at the age of 22, he will be responsible for his own platoon. In all likelihood, he will be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan in the near future. But before heading off to the desert, Brooksy, say his roommates, will party it up. “He’s a big fan of the Kong,” says Ben M. Niles...