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...apparently, were the lessons Thomas had mastered during his push for a chance to crack the defensive unit. His teacher, fittingly enough, was the man whose void he now seeks to fill...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Hole in the Middle | 9/15/2004 | See Source »

READY, SET ... The President pauses in the control room just before taking the stage. In his 62-min. speech, he will lay out a modest domestic agenda and a vigorous defense of his foreign policy--and crack a few jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Top | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

Despite Putin's pledge not to storm the school, special forces and other crack troops came pouring into the surrounding area. To avoid being overwhelmed by narcotic gas like their comrades had been in the October 2002 Moscow theater siege--in which 41 terrorists and 129 hostages died--the rebels quickly smashed the school's windows. After reviewing the situation, an officer from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit told a senior Beslan legal figure that the Moscow theater siege "was a kindergarten compared to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Are Killing Us All | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...battling simple gravity. A section of the Mount's eastern retaining wall - 40 sq m of teetering sandstone, pitted and creased by centuries of dusty desert wind - is bulging away from the great mass of the Temple. The darkness that lies behind it breaks black through a 50-cm crack that runs 20 m to the top. Looking up at the wall, it seems the sandstone slabs might topple at any moment. That, indeed, is the fear of Israeli archaeologists. Since Solomon erected his temple on Mount Moriah in 960 B.C., it has been destroyed and sacked by Nebuchadnezzar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weight of the World | 9/12/2004 | See Source »

...weapons bombarding New York City in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow are giant robots. They're also entirely created--as is everything else in this movie except the stars--by computer. And at least one of the stars is too: ace news hen Gwyneth Paltrow and crack pilot Jude Law are real enough, but Laurence Olivier, in his first role since his death in 1989, is a hologram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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