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Between moments of moralizing and philosophizing, narrated by Levy, the film's footage (much of it archival) presents vivid glimpses of the war. The awful clarity of these moments--as when a man, off-camera, screams to his father who attempts, unsuccessfully, to dodge the bullets of an unseen sniper--demands a response from the viewer...
...faces of those who endure the war as it unfolds and the video footage of sniper-attacks, dated 1993, force the plight of the Bosnians very close to the heart. Despite its tendency to whitewash the tangle of politics and history, "Bosna!" is a rare, vivid collection of images which speak with strength to universal human compassion...
...words between the government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Chiapas rebels ended last week, and real warfare resumed. In Nuevo Momon, a village in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, sniper fire rained down on a force of Mexican soldiers, killing two of them. Near the town of Cacalomacan, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, 250 police and soldiers surrounded a group of militants and flushed them out of a farmhouse after a two-hour gun battle. In other strongholds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or E.Z.L.N., hundreds of heavily armed soldiers...
...garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper can't get a good shot at me," he says with a defiant grin. "It would take a cruise missile...
John Bracco and Clint Owen--the current ECAC Rookie of the Week--have shared time in goal, while forward Burke Murphy is the team's top sniper, racking up 14 goals and eight assists in the Saints' first 14 games...