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...urgent discussion. The scene featured Bachchan as an Indian army colonel banging two hammers on a table off screen to simulate the jolt of an incoming Pakistani artillery round, then walking across camera to pick up a mug of tea. After two hours of adjusting camera angles, lighting and backdrop, and several more heated talks with Bachchan, Akhtar called a wrap. A year later, the movie is finally out?and Akhtar has cut Bachchan entirely from the scene, the superstar eclipsed by a tin mug that jumps and spills with the whump of the shells. "Oh God, man, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touching the Heights | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...October, against the backdrop of the lawsuit, the University organized a committee of students, administrators and an outside expert to evaluate HUPD’s privacy policies and recommend changes. The committee’s final report, released on June 1, recommended that HUPD provide more detailed information in its police logs but continue to limit access to incident reports. The report also called for HUPD to release aggregate statistics about suicides and attempted suicides...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Lawsuit | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

According to Jaeger, the new contracts would serve as the backdrop to the University administration’s new spending philosophy, clearer now that plans for the expansion of Allston and the sciences have further solidified...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Year of Budget Cuts, Over 200 Harvard Employees Laid Off | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...desk chair and stared out my common room window to collect my thoughts. From the fourth floor of Canaday A, I took a moment to meditate on the illuminated Memorial Hall tower rising up majestically from behind the entryways across the courtyard. The scene provided an incredible backdrop for a moment of reflection. How did I get to live and study in a place like this? How many others had admired this very same view? What would the rest of college be like...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, | Title: The 5 A.M. Moment | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...hosted weblogging service like TypePad and, if you want, editing software such as Final Cut Pro or iMovie (the latter is free with most Apple computers). For really spiffy professional results, it makes sense to invest in tools like Serious Magic's Visual Communicator, a TelePrompTer-graphics-backdrop package that provides network-news production values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See Me, Blog Me | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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