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...film's plot, but makes a few modifications to give it a Bourne identity. For one thing, Edward begins as a real boy who's killed in a freak accident. (Helpful hint, kids: Don't play with scissors during an electrical storm.) And the inventor doesn't construct a new boy; rather he strives to revive the dead one. In another tweak, the local teenagers, led by Kim's dastard beau, are responsible for the Inventor's death (though Bourne doesn't pursue this line to its logical confrontation). There's also a severe reduction in the importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edward Scissordance | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Uyana is the first hotel in Sri Lanka to construct a wetland system with lakes, reed beds and imported forest. Accommodation is in vast villas - the bathroom alone, which boasted its own lily pond, was about the size of my apartment. Designed by Sunela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's leading environmental architect, the villas combine wood, granite, thatch and concrete in a haven of elegant simplicity: a haven, in fact, for man and beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water World | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

Gates is a major donor to the University. In 1996, he and Ballmer contributed $25 million to construct the computer-science building Maxwell Dworkin, which bears their mothers’ maiden names...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bill Gates To Speak at Commencement | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

Harvard and Boston officials announced last night that they have delayed plans to construct an art museum in Allston and suspended community meetings for the month of March in an effort to refocus on a proposed science complex and to regain control of a planning process that some have described as confusing and rushed...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plans Postponed For Art Museum | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...that geographically straddles the border between the East and West—a polity divided between a secularized, cosmopolitan bourgeois and a political Islamist provincial underclass. But on the other hand, it’s a cerebral reflection on love, happiness, faith, and the dazzling power of language to construct and re-construct the reality in which we live.“Snow” opens with the illusion of omniscient narration. “I’m an old friend of Ka’s and I begin this story knowing everything that will happen to him during...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Snow | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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