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...Asian beast: scare flicks that kept them suspended in fear, instead of grossed out by gore. As a result, says Danny Pang, co-director of the Hong Kong horror blockbuster The Eye, "People realized that horror movies don't have to be B movies. They've finally broken into the mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Screams | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...success of Japanese horror, other moviemakers around Asia have also embraced the genre. Most of the resulting films are ghost tales that overlay rustic superstitions onto a canvas of urban, middle-class life. They're populated by loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings and antiseptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Screams | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...thankful to President Bush because he had the courage to make the decision to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a problem not only for Iraq but for other countries as well. The American and British invasion has broken the rule of this dictator. The situation in Iraq is very difficult and dangerous, but the coalition must remain until there is no further threat from the insurgents. Luigi Gianola Como, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...take new action to sustain Europe's demography and better reconcile professional, personal and family life with the aim of permitting couples to have as many babies as they want." Ron Lesthaeghe, a demographer at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.), is happy that the taboo has been broken, but he says, "It's still too little, too late." Immigration has so far staved off population shrinkage in countries like Germany, where death rates already exceed birth rates, but even at numbers far beyond current levels it will have scant influence on the long-term balance among generations. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Need More Babies! | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

...Crimson has been making history all year long. Harvard has scored at least 31 points eight times in nine games—marking the first time since 1893 that the Crimson has broken the 30-point barrier eight times in a season. Apart from contests against Dartmouth and Brown, none of Harvard’s games have been decided by less than 10 points...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing for History | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

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