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After Folman's memories came back full blast, he delved into other ex-soldiers' experiences of the Lebanon war. For Israelis it was a botched misadventure similar to America's war in Vietnam, and one nobody dared speak about afterwards. Folman posted notices on the Internet, asking veterans to come forward with their stories. He got over a hundred replies, and skillfully weaved into the film his ex-comrades' stories - and their nightmares. Waltz opens with a pack of snarling dogs racing through Tel Aviv's streets to converge outside an apartment belonging to a friend of Folman's. During...
...abroad might be supported.” “We’re still in the process of working out the budgetary aspects of it,” Lue said. “There is a budget, but I don’t think we are prepared to speak to what the total budget will be.” Applications for the Rockefeller Grant, along with those for all other Office of International Program Summer Grants, are due in late February. Rockefeller’s April gift also established the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experience...
...special event, titled “Frank Kramer—A Celebration” was recently held in his honor. Area residents gathered at the Harvard Book Store to hear local authors speak glowingly of him and his work. Bernays, an author who spoke at the commemoration, says that the event was “remarkable” and praised the now-retired bookseller...
...Abdallah won't tell me how he slipped through the screen or how he, a city dweller, got a tribal sheik to speak on his behalf. He hints that some money changed hands. "Everything is possible with dollars," he says with a laugh. He claims that at least five of the men in his SOI group had been foot soldiers for al-Qaeda. The U.S. soldiers with whom they have regular contact "don't know anything about us," he said...
TIME: Why are 11,000 of MONUC's 17,000 soldiers outside the area where the fighting is? Doss: We are redeploying. As we speak, there are units being moved into the area. But we really are stretched to the limit. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. South Kivu [a province of Congo] is tense. So is Ituri [another province in the country], and we have the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda] in the northeast. We are doing short-term reinforcements, but we simply do not have an effective rapid-reaction...