"We're going to fly two and a half miles up and throw you out of an airplane," the cameraman said to first-year College student Jessie Shields as she prepared for her first skydive. Shields grew up near West Point Airport on the York River -- you can see the skydivers from her house. She's from a pretty rural area where it takes 30 minutes to get to the nearest mall or movie theater.
"Democracy is the dream of every Iranian," Religious Studies Prof. Abdulaziz Sachedina said. Students of universities in Tehran go so far as to whisper that they want the Americans to come, that America "did good" in Afghanistan and in Iraq. In the Dome Room of the Rotunda, so full that some students had to be turned away, Sachedina delivered a hopeful and sometimes controversial lecture on recent Iranian elections and the possibility for a true democracy in the Middle East. But not all Iranians hope for the arrival of American troops.
He likes to play basketball and soccer and to bang away on the toy keyboard. His heroes are Tom and Jerry.
