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“I began living the movie as it unreeled.”

The stark numbers and bare-bones accounts that unreel in her hand are just the start; her staff will catalog them, investigate them — and try to bring the Russian perpetrators of war crimes to justice.

From her base in Chicago, she unreeled an array of stories about the triumphs and tragedies of people both ordinary and extraordinary.

This time, the action unreels not in an East German dacha but in a London hospital.

A moment of silence unreeled as they contemplated their situation.