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...their human target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist bystander (Forest Whitaker) and a few of the terrorists as they develop their scheme and attempt their escape...
Last week, the stereotypical hoards surrounding John Harvard, taking pictures, and ensuring that students bound for the Science Center are late for class weren’t the tourists we’ve all come to expect. Rather than unofficial tour groups illuminating the Yard with strobe-light like flashes, the crowds were made up of the delegates from the Fourth annual Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) conference, which took place from Feb. 9 to 17.Founded in 2003, HCAP began with a lofty goal: to “foster greater interest and understanding of Asia among Harvard students...
...strategy with people in a way that they understand,” the passionate professor says. “You learn how to be patient. You learn how to win.” Although he may know how to win, the professor has only been to Vegas as a tourist and speaker. Nesson isn’t opposed, however, to swindling poor, unsuspecting law school students out of a few bucks. Indeed, Nesson says he plays with students “whenever they invite me to a good game.” GPSTS, Nesson’s brainchild, sponsors team...
...other loyal raulistas, especially the military chief of staff, General Alvaro Lopez Miera, 63. Raul's son-in-law, Colonel Luis Alberto Rodriguez, is being groomed to take over the broad economic and business policy duties already held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, including enterprises like the multibillion-dollar tourist concern Gaviota, which has helped keep Cuba afloat since the demise of its longtime benefactor, the Soviet Union...
...German tourist Jurgen Kohl was window shopping in Mexico's trendy Zona Rosa district last Friday afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a crude plastic explosives device. One of the injured died on the way to hospital. "Being in Mexico, I first thought it was an earthquake or something," Kohl said, visibly shaken from the blast. "I had no idea that bombs went...