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...video and KSM's own hands, along with other evidence, confirmed the FBI's suspicions. Then, under interrogation, KSM confessed, national security officials told TIME, admitting without remorse that he personally severed Pearl's head and telling interrogators he had to switch knives after the first one "got dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fingering Danny Pearl's Killer | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...acts. Danielson was predictably weird.The Futureheads and Spoon were fine, I guess. The Walkmen were totally irrelevant. Aesop Rock and Mr. Lif were in the wrong place at the wrong time, being rappers and all. Liars were noisy and silly. Art Brut were very British. Ted Leo was rather dull, but he did break his skin on a microphone, so I guess that was cool. Destroyer is not an interesting band.And that was that! It was, overall, a delightful weekend at the old ballpark, and Pitchfork continues to throw the best party of the summer for people who, like...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blood, Sweat, and Hipsters in Chi-Town | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...major change amidst all this constancy was the disappearance of “The Da Vinci Code” from the bestseller ranks. Author Dan Brown’s juggernaut was most likely done in by the ploddingly dull film adaptation released in May. It should be mentioned that Ron Howard directed, even though his name is synonymous with ploddingly dull...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After the Books of Summer Have Gone | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Wuterich, 26, who grew up in Meriden, Conn., signed up for the Marines at 17 and volunteered for the infantry, the grunts who are the heart and soul of the corps. Finding boot camp a dull grind compared with what he felt the recruiting videos had promised, he asked to switch out of the infantry. "I thought I could use my mind a little differently," he says. But he was turned down. He tried again in 2002, requesting a transfer to counterintelligence, but his eight tattoos disqualified him; those kinds of markings make a man too easy to identify. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Face of Haditha | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...film also shows the seemingly honest Lee as a surprise partaker in police corruption, but since most of the film's other police officers are seen to be honest, if rather dull, fellows, this plot strand doesn't elicit much shock or insight, either. But the silliest aspect of the film is the relationship that develops between Hartnett's Bucky and an heiress named Madeleine Linscott (Hillary Swank). They meet in a lesbian bar (more L.A. decadence for you), but she turns out to be resolutely heterosexual, very rich and-need we say it?-that most conventional of film noir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Review: The Black Dahlia | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

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