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This is not your average Olympian talking, but then Nagvajara, 43, isn't actually a world-class athlete. The first person ever to represent Thailand at a Winter Games, he was lapped and eliminated from his first event, the 30km, less than a third of the way through. Even in...
Nagvajara grew up in Bangkok playing keyboards in a teenage rock band; he was 18 before he ever saw snow. By entering the Olympic Games, he has joined an elite club: he is one of 11 athletes who are the sole representatives of their countries at these Salt Lake City...
I’d far rather the council focus on its role as our mouthpiece to the administration. But the council’s ability to gauge opinions like this and pass them along to the administration is dubious at best. In a recent letter to the editor, council member...
The titular Hart is actually Lieutenant Hart (Colin Farrell), an American soldier taken prisoner by the Germans near the end of World War II. His POW camp is ruled by an unintentionally humorous German colonel and Willis’ Col. McNamara. Shortly after Hart begins his stay at the camp...
The racial issues discussed in Hart’s War represent another of the film’s strong points. In a poignant monologue, one of the accused soldiers discusses how German POWs were allowed in Georgian movie theaters and diners, whereas he himself was not allowed to enter, even...