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...kill him if it looks as if Ben will be captured by the Japanese. Joe, however, is a bit shell-shocked, or as we now say, suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome. He has followed orders before, and, as a result, is the sole, death-haunted survivor of a unit he led into an ambush. He resolves not to become too close to a man he may have to kill. But the Navajo is a charmer, and the movie heads toward an utterly predictable ending, during the battle for Saipan, that is both culturally reconciling and personally tragic...
...other hand, Woo's battle sequences are outstanding. Woo has made his reputation largely with more fantastic films (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2), but he proves here that he's equally adept with more traditional material. His low, restlessly moving camera captures the anarchy of small-unit combat vividly, powerfully. But the energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness...
...afternoon in late March, the soldiers were securing the area for a special visit by Thailand's Queen Sirikit. But along the Thai-Burmese border?where insurgents, smugglers and drug dealers hold sway?little can be taken for granted. Suddenly, the Thai troops were under fire. The enemy: a unit of the United Wa State Army, a tribal force from Burma. Allied with the government in Rangoon and notorious for its dominance of the narcotics trade, the tribal army frequently sends its drug caravans slithering through Thai territory. When the four-hour firefight was over, the Wa had retreated...
Harvard’s ROTC program dates back to 1916, when the first army drill unit was established and 1,200 students enlisted...
Last December, Harvard offered a second alternative for its use for the site—a 120-unit housing complex—an option that went over about as well as the original museum...