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...child of the pacific diaspora, it seemed a perfect place to meet: amidst the clamor and conveyor belts of Auckland Airport. This year 1,100 Samoans will officially migrate to New Zealand, swelling the ranks of the estimated 115,000 of their countrymen - two out of five Samoans - who live there. Sima Urale is one of them. To identify herself at the airport meeting, "from a million islanders flying out and arriving that same day," she's sent through a passport photo of herself - though when she turns up, hair cascading over a tracksuit top and jeans, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking Up the Happy Isles | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...expressly for The Graduate, and there is something to be said for original music that supports an original film. Granted, the Shins’ song is a plot point in the movie, and “The Sound of Silence” which accompanies Benjamin Braddock’s conveyor-belt anesthesia was recorded before The Graduate was made. Ultimately, what I hate is that the Garden State soundtrack isn’t a great soundtrack, it’s just a great mix-tape...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Chris A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER AND COLUMNISTS | Title: "Listen, It'll Change Your Life" | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...addition, some tile from the servery will be extended into the hall, a new dish conveyor belt will be added, and the floor will be recarpeted...

Author: By Carolyn A. Sheehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mather Details Plans To Renovate Dining ‘Barracks’ | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...Minister who is editor of the Washington-based magazine Foreign Policy, agreed that the world economy was unlikely to crash. "But there's no doubt that America's adjustment is going to have consequences," he said. "U.S. interest rates matter to the rest of the world. They are a conveyor belt that is going to transmit shock waves to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Brink of Trouble? | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. U2? “Vertigo”? The iPod anthem is by no means a bad song, but isn’t U2 established enough at this point that these cookie-cutter songs are coming out on a conveyor belt? Especially compared to the crisp tones of “Take Me Out,” or even Green Day’s “American Idiot,” which was also nominated and snubbed, “Vertigo” becomes indistinguishable from “Beautiful Day?...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Grammys Love Company of Dead Artists | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

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