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...Most blue-ribbon studies start gathering dust the minute they are printed. This one, with 79 recommendations in just 99 pages, was unveiled on network TV and in the first few days shot up to No. 3 on the Amazon best-seller list. The panel members worked overtime on the launch, doing carefully choreographed rounds of interviews with reporters and anchors before Baker and Hamilton motored back to the Hill to start selling their plan to Congress. The core message: the Bush Administration has to work and think a lot harder to achieve even modest goals in Iraq--and should...
...looms beside them. The director delivers an encomium on cheese. The scene is surreal enough to be from a David Lynch movie, and it is, a two-minute film that has been downloaded more than 50,000 times on YouTube since it was posted Nov. 9. The director of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks didn't direct this one; a couple of guys named Nate and Matt recorded Lynch's street-corner Oscar campaign for Dern's performance in his new film, Inland Empire. But Empire is only marginally less homespun, and although it's not on YouTube, the director...
...After receiving yet another magazine cover with a white background, I have to say, How boring. Half the fun of getting the magazine is guessing what will be on the cover and then seeing what TIME has chosen. I understand the red and blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum. Karen Walters Paradise, California...
...blanks with whatever dubious ideological instruction he likes. You can also argue, less cosmically, that his works are no more than extensions of a very long line in epic, unconsciously risible filmmaking that imparts earnest metaphorical lessons about metaphysical topics, often enough from people who are painted blue or speaking a language that needs subtitles, or both, as in this film. Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies. Doubtless there will come a day when he joins them in the Valhalla of the vacuous...
...This strategy to produce a male scout team is not a new idea. Duke, with consistently highly ranked women’s and men’s basketball programs, has scoured its campus for similar all-male scout teams for its women’s squad. The result: the Blue Devils made it to the championship game of the NCAA tournament last year.Now, the crop of top-tier basketball talent is deeper at a larger, more well-known basketball powerhouse such as Duke. But members of this Crimson scout team, with Putchel at its forefront, possess a commitment for similar...