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Monsoon Wedding is full of such scenes and is a true crowd pleaser. For all its larger-than-life excesses, it balances humor and humanity with a deft touch; it is irresistible...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Archives | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...easy to defeat an incumbent President under the best of circumstances, and the Democrats have cause to worry. This particular model Bush is a deft politician with big ideas and with the guts to take risks that can yield great victories. He is also one brazen dude: he traveled last week to Missouri and came very close to using the V word--victory--even though most of Saddam Hussein's inner circle had effectively disappeared and even though no weapons of mass destruction had yet been found and even though U.S.-controlled Iraq remained a chaotic mess (and even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make The Victory Stick | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...easy to defeat an incumbent President under the best of circumstances, and the Democrats have cause to worry. This particular model Bush is a deft politician with big ideas and with the guts to take risks that can yield great victories. He is also one brazen dude: he traveled last week to Missouri and came very close to using the V word - victory - even though most of Saddam Hussein's inner circle had effectively disappeared and even though no weapons of mass destruction had yet been found and even though U.S.-controlled Iraq remained a chaotic mess (and even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make the Victory Stick | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Nobody doubts the creativity of Kutaragi, who built the PlayStation console for Sony. But he is also a deft marketer: of all consoles sold last year, 69% were PlayStations, according to the consultancy Strategy Analytics. Kutaragi, 52, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, has just been given a second post, as deputy president of the parent company. He will oversee Sony's transformation into a broadband-network giant, with its games, music, movies and gadgets linked through the Internet. The appointment fuels speculation that Kutaragi will someday run Sony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Despite his 21 years of right-handedness, Schaffer now believes that he has always been “naturally” left-handed. “I think it’s without question that my left hand is more deft, more expressive,” he says. Schaffer took to drawing with his left hand even more seriously than he had with his right...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Left Hand | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

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