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...southern Alaska, until he and his girlfriend were mauled to pieces. With the aid of more than 90 hours of Treadwell's video footage, plus interviews with those who knew him, Herzog gets into the mind of a man who thought his nearness to the bears was a triumph of cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was tempting the fate he eventually, tragically achieved...
This has all been variously portrayed as trampling on civil liberties, violating the Constitution, jeopardizing the very idea of freedom and otherwise destroying all that is sacred in America. Well, that's one way to look at it. But there's another way to look at itas a triumph of counterterrorism, the beginning of the answer to the question that for the past four-plus years has been on everyone's mind but that no one could figure out: Why haven't we been hit again...
...scored twice as many points as its opponent, it usually wins. That was the scenario the Harvard women’s basketball team enjoyed on Monday night as the Crimson (4-9) took a 42-20 halftime lead over lowly Colgate (2-10) en route to an 80-62 triumph at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard never trailed and used an 18-0 run midway through the first quarter to turn a 17-11 lead into a 35-11 lead. Colgate failed to score for an eight-minute stretch as the Crimson ran away. “We came out really tough...
...Bono and Bob Geldof organized the Live 8 concerts with the help of screenwriter Richard Curtis (Love Actually), who wrote HBO's The Girl in the Café, the world's first romantic comedy about African debt relief. (As propaganda goes, it was at least a better date flick than Triumph of the Will.) Even celebrity cartoons were pressed into service. UNICEF blew the Smurfs into little blue smithereens for a commercial intended to raise money for the rescue of child soldiers...
...American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman 721 pages