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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interest among distributors and then waited a year or longer for a theatrical campaign to reach major cities. A few months later, the DVD would hit shelves in smaller markets. But with Alexander the Last, which opened in every major market via Festival Direct at midnight on Saturday - along with four other South by Southwest titles - Swanberg says he's eliminated the window between his festival screening and home-video campaign, all the while substantially reducing the cost of a national release and maximizing the word-of-mouth buzz from his Austin premiere. By comparison, the Amy Adams comedy Sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Film Festival Comes to Your Living Room | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...hard to avoid the conclusion that some of these men - and they are almost all men - belong in jail. But most were too shrewd to cross legal lines; they just danced along them, lingering in the loopholes, playing us for suckers. Now the damage is done, and it's easy enough for them to hide in the complexity of a system few of us understand - a system created by collective irresponsibility. But recklessness is a form of intent, and when the damage is measured in families disfigured by a sudden fear of the future, and parents haunted by the debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Art of Saying I'm Sorry | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Physics makes things trickier still, causing different parts of the body to move at different speeds. Your skis or snowboard may be sliding along at a slow 10 m.p.h., but if you catch a tip or edge on something stationary, the rest of you plunges forward and accelerates. "The body acts as an inverted pendulum, so the upper body moves much faster than the lower body," says Shealy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Helmet Have Saved Natasha Richardson? | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...lives of ordinary Darfuris. The now-defunct NGOs contributed 80 percent of the workers to the UN World Food Programme’s efforts in Darfur and maintained hygienic standards in packed refugee camps. However effective or ineffective these organizations may be, 2.75 million refugees depended on their aid, along with millions more...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: Collaborative Justice | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

House List: A haven for some, a nuisance for others. Like many house lists, Currierwire features an antagonizing aristocracy, along with mainstays such as Christopher L. Hartl '09 and Frances I. Martel '09. Though the list has its share of borderline asinine threads, the relatively manageable volume and occasional gem make a subscription worthwhile. List moderator Jeffrey D. Nanney '10 attests to two or three subscription requests per week...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir | Title: The Housing Crisis: Currier House | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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