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...Alpha Omega Jewelers manager Mehtap Alsan said that “business is blooming,” citing a 30 to 40 percent increase in weekend sales this Thanksgiving...

Author: By Ying Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Enjoy Holiday Boom | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...year-end movies are often solemn, sensitive items: women's work after 11 months of guy stuff. But Oliver Stone is alpha male incarnate, and his pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: It's His Same Old Story | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Larry doesn't take it well. In just a few minutes, he has experienced the first stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna about Dan, he atavizes into Caveman, the Alpha Male in competitive fury. Where did you make love: what parts of the house, what parts of the body? How did Dan perform? What did he taste like? Was he "better"? "Gentler," she acknowledges, depleted by the hard truths he's forcing out of her. "Sweeter." Larry finally has what he wanted: the instant, utter and mutual eradication of their year-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

Officially known as the Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, Harvard’s chapter—the nation’s oldest to exist continuously—elects the Junior 24 in junior spring, the Senior 48 in senior fall and an additional batch in senior spring, bringing the total membership to about 10 percent of the graduating class...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Names 48 Seniors as Members | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...Saturday the final assault got under way as the Wolf Pack drove farther south, positioned to swing west to complete the sweep of the city. Alpha Company took more casualties, one a key member that was particularly bitter, as the battle's end was so close. As the soldiers evacuated their wounded, military sources said Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was readying to announce the end of combat in the recaptured city. As the fighting in Fallujah dies down, the Wolf Pack and the rest of Task Force 2-2 are due to return to their usual area of operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Hot Zone | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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