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...cold this week at Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading out of Savannah, to flyswatters (a dozen for every 150 men, same for mousetraps...
...meeting director Bernardo Bertolucci through friends in London, he served as an adviser on Bertolucci's Little Buddha, parts of which were shot in Bhutan. Then in 1998 he brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with World Cup football. "Buddhism is their philosophy," read the posters. "Soccer is their religion." The Cup employed not a single professional actor. Most of the characters played themselves, and Khyentse Norbu shot...
...Israelis," he says. "The same fear which our mothers feel for their children and husbands is now among them." In the end, Said never got the order to don the explosives belt. On April 2, just days after his last interview with Sabbah, he was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops who stormed the Jenin refugee camp. Sabbah, who learned of Said's death three months later, doesn't think the young Palestinian would have been sorry to go. He recalls Said's final words to him after the last interview in that empty building: "Like life, death...
...HERB RITTS, 50, sweetly easygoing celebrity photographer whose ability to make famous subjects comfortable helped him capture and define the high-octane glamour and narcissism of the 1980s; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. A onetime furniture salesman who made his name with an impromptu late-1970s photo shoot of his not-yet-known friend Richard Gere, Ritts produced memorable photos of Elizabeth Taylor revealing her brain-surgery scar, Madonna grabbing her crotch, and singer k.d. lang, in drag, being shaved by Cindy Crawford...
Harvard needed to shoot well to keep up with Dartmouth’s free-wheeling barrage from outside. The Big Green, which runs a Princeton-style offense that uses screens to free up shooters along the perimeter, launched almost two-thirds of its attempts from the three-point line. Dartmouth converted 50 percent of those tries...