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...also concentrated on women in film, literature and music. An exhibit of ancient Mexican and Peruvian art featuring women runs Mar. 3-May 28, to be followed by aboriginal painters from Australia, June 30-Sept. 24. Tourists willing to venture a few miles out of the district to Fairfax, Virginia, will be rewarded by another of the area's unusual institutions: the 68-year-old National Firearms Museum, tel: (1-703) 267 1600; www.nra.nationalfirearms.museum. Run by the National Rifle Association, it has one of the country's largest collections of rare and historical guns. More than...
...addressed in the 1986 movie Sword of Gideon. Still, I look forward to seeing Spielberg's moviemaking talents brought to bear on this story of terrorism and a nation's legitimate response. Sensitive or not, the movie - if it's good - will sell itself. Chris Krisinger Colonel, U.S.A.F. Burke, Virginia, U.S. I hope that Munich is a big success. The story of the Israeli athletes who were cold-bloodedly murdered should never be forgotten. I wish there were more brave people like Spielberg. He is willing to tell the truth in his movies and make a difference. Elena Shumsky Orlando...
...rumor started-the CEO of the mine company blamed it on a ?miscommunication?-the tragedy hit this Appalachian community hard. Most everyone here knows a miner or works in the mines himself, and hundreds of residents came out to support the families and friends of the trapped men. West Virginia?s governor, Joe Manchin, was on the scene but he too seemed caught up in the euphoria of the false report. ?Miracles do happen,? he said, before learning the truth...
...reality, rescuers at the bottom of the West Virginia mine had said there were no more survivors-and rescuers at the surface, listening through a scratchy connection, had misunderstood. "They managed to turn this town upside down", said Terry Hinchman, a boyhood friend of a deceased miner, Fred Ware Jr., and cousin of another, Marty Bennett. The only survivor: Ronald McCloy, age 23, the youngest of the group. Taken to Ruby Hospital in Morgantown, he was listed in serious condition...
...tournament as a member of the Gator Wrestling Club, easily reaching the semifinals at 165 pounds. He would finish fourth after two losses on Friday to the first and third seeds. Overall, the Crimson wrestlers put 22.5 points on the board, one-and-a-half point behind West Virginia. Illinois won the championship by accumulating 115.5 points. Harvard’s first tournament of the new year will be at Texas on Jan. 7, where it will face Utah Valley State, Chattanooga and Stanford in the Lone Star Duals...