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...reluctance to go for easy, farcical frenzy that is most attractive. And Beckinsale, having survived the Pearl Harbor disaster, is all better now, both perky and mysterious. They have agreeable best pals (Jeremy Piven and Molly Shannon). Eugene Levy does a nice turn as a fussy store clerk, and one doesn't feel particularly sorry for the drippy fiances (Bridget Moynahan and John Corbett), who exist mainly to be dumped and whose roles define the word thankless. Peter Chelsom's direction is conventionally pretty--and an improvement on his grim Town & Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Affair To Forget | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...favorite Elvis hits. There's a mint-flavored Koizumi chewing gum. Last week stores started selling a coffee-table book with snapshots of Koizumi in a bathrobe, Koizumi reading, Koizumi playing baseball, Koizumi eating noodles. "The whole country is depressed," says Masaaki Nagamoto, 45, a law clerk shopping for Koizumi kitsch one recent afternoon. "All our faith is in Koizumi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Outsider | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Pete Garcia, the company's vice president of sales and marketing for Latin America, describes the firm's environment as dramatically different from what it was when he joined 20 years ago as a reservations clerk. "I feel more loyal to Continental now because it adopted a policy that emphasizes that we treat each other and our customers with dignity and respect," he says. This is no mean feat in the airline industry, which has a horrible labor-relations history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diversity's New Flavor | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the U.S., several apparent backlash attacks and threats have been reported against people of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent. In Mesa, Ariz., an Indian immigrant gas station owner was shot to death and a Lebanese-American clerk was targeted—but not injured—by gunfire at another gas station. In Seattle, an armed man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a mosque...

Author: By Lucas L. Tate, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. Prepares To Strike Back | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...conformity rules. The country is now getting better at assimilating people with physical disabilities like deafness into mainstream society. But Samuragoch struggled in obscurity for many years. Instead of composing music for TV dramas that he considered unwatchable, he supported himself by working part time as a video-store clerk and a street sweeper. He finally broke through with the chance to compose the score for a TV film, Cosmos, and then for a video game, Bio Hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mamuro Samuragouchi: Songs of Silence | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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