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...indeed, potentially epidemic. This was not simply a racist film; it was one whose brilliant storytelling technique lent plausibility and poignancy to images of crude Negroes in the Reconstruction Senate, and of a black man pursuing a white woman until, to save her virginity, she throws herself off a cliff. Viewers could believe that what they saw was not only historically but emotionally true. "Birth" not only taught moviegoers how to react to film narrative but what to think about blacks - and, in the climactic ride of hooded horsemen to avenge their honor, what to do to them. The movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

When we last visited the Matrix, computers had taken over the planet and imprisoned the human race in a computer-generated "reality." Keanu Reeves played Neo, a hacker turned superhero recruited to save his fellow man, and the movie ended with him literally taking flight. It was a cliff-hanger that might as well have been subtitled "Watch for the sequel, coming soon to a theater near you--that is, if this thing makes any money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Matrix Reloads | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...from 10 meters. They learned to live off raw snakes and rats. Before each drill, they were made to bellow: "If you're caught, blow yourself up." Anyone who fell behind faced a beating from their guard-trainers. One recruit died in swimming endurance training, another fell off a cliff. The guards took one laggard into the ocean and nearly drowned him. Later they buried him on the beach with his head sticking out of the sand and left him there all night. Former trainer Lee Jun Young defends the brutal regimen: "They were going into North Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea's Dirty Dozen | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

After Becker disposed of Chu, 6-3, 6-3, to give Baylor a 2-0 lead, the Crimson began storming back. Sophomore Cliff Nguyen, who had lost his first set to Hornung 6-3, forced the German into unforced error after unforced error...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baylor Halts Run By M. Tennis in Second Round of NCAAs | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

Captain Will Lee and sophomore Cliff Nugyen won second-team All-Ivy honors as a doubles pair...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Begins NCAA Play | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

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