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...minute forget about the big numbers, the millions of customers and the billions of dollars. Think about what's at stake culturally and socially in the search wars, and all those zeros start looking pretty paltry by comparison. The Internet is swiftly becoming the primary repository of the bulk of human information. Search is the way we get at that information, and companies like Google wield enormous power. They reflect our common interests and shape how we learn about the world with their rapid-fire search results. This isn't just about dotcom juggernauts duking it out for stock options...
...afraid to work hard for his roles. The Cold Mountain shoot, which took place mainly in Romania, was particularly brutal. Law dived right in, being buried alive and dragging himself through swamps, mud and snow. A former vegetarian, Law discovered he was 20 lbs. underweight and had to bulk up for the role. "I remember looking out the window of my hotel room in Brasov and seeing Jude running up and down the hotel car park with his personal trainer on his back," says Minghella. That trainer--the 200-lb. Eddie Joseph, who has a good...
...Woolrich knew he was trading power for solvency when he sold his work to other media. In many years, film, radio and later TV versions of his work brought in the bulk of his income. In the 1940s he wrote 11 novels; Hollywood filmed eight of them within three years of their publication. True, Woolrich was not consulted when screenwriters gave his plots different endings (?No Man of Her Own?), different murderers (?Black Angel?). Authors rarely were then. Shakespeare and the Bible got rewritten with the same blithe abandon...
...According to a source close to the police investigations who has reviewed the bulk of seized JI documents, the organization's own accounting shows that some 3,000 trainees have passed through Mindanao since the mid-1990s. A recent intelligence report prepared by the Philippine military and seen by TIME estimates that 600 JI members are currently in Mindanao, scattered among at least three camps. That figure, contained in a so-called Jemaah Islamiah situationer dated Dec. 8, includes an unspecified number of Filipinos, but the bulk of trainees are believed to be Indonesians, along with some Malaysians. The report...
...bulk of Beg For Mercy itself is nothing new: guided by 50’s now famous (and largely unintelligible) mumble, G Unit sample the usual spectrum of hot topics: guns, revenge, pimps, bitches in tight clothing, bling. “Ima keep livin’ my life/ with a pistol in my palm and a wrist full of ice,” 50 drawls in “Eye For Eye.” Judging from Beg For Mercy, this won’t be changing anytime soon...