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...Gestapo headquarters, is murdered by Philippe (the great Lino Ventura) as he makes his escape from his would-be torturers. For the rest of the picture he runs a little band of underground fighters who are mainly preoccupied with their own security. You never see them blowing up a train or ambushing a German patrol or, for that matter, doing anything remotely useful to the Allied cause. Instead they pursue traitors in their own midst and spend a lot of time trying to spring their own members who have been captured by the Germans before they are forced to reveal...
...less than three weeks, about 400 ritzy New Yorkers will board a private six-car train in Grand Central Station and sip wine as they rumble through the blooming spring countryside.After about an hour, a squad of school buses will pick them up and shuttle them to the elite Greenwich Polo Club, where they will enjoy a champagne reception and a buffet lunch.Around 4 p.m., they will take to the open grounds and situate themselves for an afternoon of laid-back Ivy League polo.There will be almost 70 ponies. But no college kids to ride them. That?...
...honor code system.“I think there are certain values among students that are more or less universal,” he said.PURPOSE OF A CODEThere are, nonetheless, important benefits to honor code systems. According to Melendez, an honor code would address the lack of moral training in a university education. Melendez wrote that the lack of such training is a “great defect.”“One’s education ought to train him or her to survive and succeed in life. Yet one might easily find himself or herself...
...this world,” he says. Hoping to publicize the plight of ordinary Guatemalans, De Beausset hatched a plan to document the journey immigrants face from Guatemala into the United States. Getting to the U.S. would mean hiring a pricey smuggler, and weeks of jumping on moving trains, dodging the Mexican police, and avoiding the stream of muggers who prey on the vulnerable travelers.De Beausset attempted to tag along with a smuggler—known by locals as coyotes. However, for fear of participating in an illegal operation, he refused to pay them. When all the coyotes turned...
...important event for Olympic hopefuls. “The winner of this tournament gets to represent the United States in Mongolia,” Coach Jay Weiss said. “Some of the guys are better at freestyle than others, but if they want to train, it’s always a good thing. Wrestling in the off-season always helps, and when there’s a little change, people get better that way.”“It’s a different style of wrestling from the regular college [style],” Preston...