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by Mani Tadayon
graduate student, CSUN Geography Dept.
(Baudrillard 2004)
(Žižek 2006)
FLN leader Ben M’Hidi at a press conference after his arrest. After M’Hidi’s
death, Col. Mathieu publicly pays tribute to his “moral fiber, courage and
commitment to his ideals.”
ALEXA WOODS: My dad broke his leg seven hundred feet from the summit of Mount
Ranier...We reached the top and he opened a bottle of champagne... He suffered for
four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.
CHARLES BISHOP WEYLAND: You think that's the last thing your dad remembers?
The pain? Or drinking champagne with his daughter fourteen thousand feet in the air? I
need this.
Ali La Pointe chooses to be blown up rather than surrender. He hugs the young
boy who has fought with him from the very beginning.