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...Obama himself, who ran as a self-nominated candidate in 1991 on a platform of divestment from South Africa, failed in his bid, boasting a thin resume pinned on his experience as a former “community development director” and Harvard Law Review president. Among the triumphant that year was then-senior vice president of Microsoft Steven A. Ballmer ’77, a former Crimson business editor...
...devote more attention to the war in Afghanistan, many Afghans claim that in the name of fighting the Taliban, the West is ignoring abuses committed by its Afghan proxies. One of the worst offenders, alleges Samimi, is Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic-Uzbek warlord who helped in the triumphant ousting of the Taliban in 2001, when, backed by U.S. special forces, he led hundreds of men on horseback to liberate the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Dostum's militia is accused of that war's worst human-rights atrocity, in which hundreds of his captives suffocated to death after...
...about as far from “Bloodsport” as a film can get, but in the best way possible. If this doesn’t revitalize Van Damme’s career completely, it will have punctuated his career with an exclamation point more triumphant than the sum of everything else he has done...
Three decades after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran to claim power on the ruins of the Shah's regime, Iran's Islamic revolution can still draw a crowd. That much was clear Tuesday as several hundred thousand people converged on Tehran's Freedom Square to celebrate its 30th anniversary at the very spot where Khomeini was first welcomed home from his exile in France. (See pictures of Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran...
...East Coast-West Coast beef that ultimately cost him his life. Occasional narration from Biggie (Jamal Woolard) smooths over the narrative transitions, but Voletta Wallace (played by a surprisingly stilted Angela Bassett) awkwardly butts in as a second narrator to eulogize her son as the film closes on his triumphant funeral parade. The real Voletta Wallace helped produce the film, so it’s no surprise the movie strikes a hagiographic tone. Biggie either learns from misdeeds (neglecting his young daughter is bad!) or explains them away (dealing crack to a pregnant woman is just part of the game...