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...late '90s, after The Newton Boys flopped, Linklater was unable to get financing for any of his ideas, so he used a digital video camera to make Tape (three friends in a motel room talk about an old date rape) and the footage he would eventually turn into animation for Waking Life. "I was back to square one. There I was with my little videotape walking around the streets of Austin with my friends," he says. "I'm sure I'll be there again. Life is cyclical...
...turned high-end security consultant, happened to be eating breakfast in a London hotel when the bombs went off. He praised the calm, professional response he saw on the streets. But no part of him was surprised: "The attack was exactly what we were expecting back in the mid-'90s." --Reported by Jessica Carsen/London, John Flowers, Stephen Handelman and Nathan Thornburgh/ New York, Noah Isackson/ Chicago, Laura A. Locke/ San Francisco and Mark Thompson/ Washington
...high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually to settle in Glasgow. Bad memories inform the sculptures he's made ever since - like Titanic (1994), a flapping ship of fools commemorating a friend and former political prisoner who died...
...think it has. All of financial services has. Things clearly did get a little bit out of hand [in the late '90s]. You cannot go through something like that without learning from it. You go out of business, or you learn. We're in business for a reason...
...found it acceptable for government to consider race as one of many factors in making decisions. In the late 1980s she wrote an opinion striking down a law in Richmond, Va., that tried to boost the minuscule percentage of city contracts going to minority-owned firms. And in the '90s, O'Connor voted against redrawing the lines of congressional districts to benefit minorities. But she was also the Justice who cast the fifth and deciding vote in a 2003 decision upholding the right of the University of Michigan's law-school-admissions policy to consider race as a factor...