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Leap of Faith
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Last July, an apartment in the Grenoble suburb of La Villeneuve caught on fire and quickly became an inescapable inferno of flames and smoke. Two young boys stood on the balcony, desperate to escape, but with no way out behind them. They had to jump.
In her description for the
BBC, Myriam Lahouari examines the seven men who stood on the ground ready to catch them. These men were strangers to the boys, and to each other, but shared in their bravery catching a child flying through the air like a cannonball is no mean feat, and several received injuries requiring surgery in the attempt.
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WASHINGTON, DC, JANUARY 9: Two National Guards are seen through the fence where roses are left and which now now surrounds the US Capitol building three days after it was stormed, invaded and vandalized by Trump rioters in Washington, D.C., January 9, 2021. (Photo by Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob, and what comes next.”
Austin Carr | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 30, 2020 | 18 minutes (4,587 words)
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