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...Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited it. Writhing and burning, he became entangled in the wire and hung there, begging for death, until one of his comrades finally shot him out of compassion. After scenes like this, even the chaotic, bacchanalian liberation of Paris comes as an anticlimax. (See pictures of men on the battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Pentateuch. And few among Crumb's cult following would have elected that he spend four of his creative years drawing pictures to go with Sarah Palin's favorite bedside reading. Yet the weird, obsessive, oversexed artist's pictorial interpretation of Genesis, which came out Oct. 19, has shot up best-seller lists: as of this writing, it's no. 1 on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list and on Amazon.com's Christian books list, which is something of an acheivement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genesis: The Word According to R. Crumb | 11/1/2009 | See Source »

...We’re Dartmouth’s biggest game,” Murphy said. “They go crazy to play Harvard. We will get their very best shot. Those guys will be very excited to play...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Can’t Overlook Big Green | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

Though part of the film was shot in Toronto, Duffy believes that the onsite filming in Boston was essential. “Quincy Market, Fanueil Hall, you can’t fake that shit,” he declared. “As far as I’m concerned, fuck everywhere else...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Return of Boston's Patron 'Saints' | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...leader Raúl Reyes was based on information provided by a rebel turncoat. A few days later, the bodyguard of Iván Ríos, a member of the FARC's ruling secretariat, pulled off a mafia-style hit job. He executed his boss with a shot to the forehead, cut off his right hand as proof, then turned himself in to the army to collect a $2 million reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Colombia's Leftist Guerrillas Are Defecting | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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