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...After teaming up with special-effects genius Ray Harryhausen in the 1950s, film producer Charles Schneer, 88, went on to create a dozen science-fiction and fantasy favorites such as Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad trilogy...
...Ever-Subtler Second. From the depiction of high drama as his father taught it, Wyeth has narrowed down to the moments when life is charged with change, swapping N.C.'s clash of cut lasses for his own clap of distant thunder. Sometimes it is only the tragic twinkle of quaker ladies, blossoming while he watches and fading in the frosty dew of early spring. Disciplining the romantic inside him, he has sought the ever-subtler second when existence is galvanized by the unexpected...
...While media wars are par for the course when Israel and the Palestinians clash, this time they seem to be following the traditional media's migration to the Internet. The Israeli military spokesman's office has its own YouTube channel (it has recorded more than 1.5 million views), while Hamas is trying to counter with a website displaying its videos and images. Bloggers have joked that this is the first war to be covered by Twitter - the Israeli Foreign Ministry has in fact been conducting public debates on the social-messaging service - while hackers have been infiltrating Israeli websites...
...Kennedy’s candidacy manifests a problem more serious than one Senate seat, however. Political discourse is beginning to feel more like a clash of personality cults than a real debate. This type of discourse was all too prevalent this past election, when we heard more about McCain’s “maverick” brand and the antics of his running mate than we did his economic policy, and more about Obama’s immutable “hope” than his actual agenda. Indeed, despite the unique confluence of a crashing economy...
...Liberti says Putin's use of energy as a political tool - and his recent defiance of Europe and the rest of the world in Russia's military clash with Georgia - may signal that the Russian leader believes he risks little more than short-term trouble in making internationally unpopular moves that serve his interests. Liberti also suggests that the winter freeze and the assumption of the E.U. presidency by the Czech Republic, an ex-Soviet satellite, may have added to Putin's motivations. "Putin is reminding Europe [that] Russia's a force to be reckoned with, and that its position...