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...Neither is Aronofsky?s movie. Ever. It?s a truism of the adventure film that audiences can take it seriously if it doesn?t take itself too seriously. Play the material lightheartedly and viewers can enter into its world; play it straight and solemn, and they?ll get the giggles. The Fountain, which with its opening chords announces its life-or-death theme (and life beyond death), has no time or inclination for comedy. Every line of dialogue, each special effect, all those portentous glances underline the desperate urgency of Tom?s enterprise: to find a way to stop Izzy...
...meet the growing demand, more than a dozen major ride-sharing sites have sprung up, many of them quite sophisticated. Some allow users to sort by age, gender, type of car, smoking or smoke-free travel and even music preferences. At Carpoolworld.com you enter your destination, and the site spits out a list of registered users headed your way. Ridester.com one of the fastest-growing sites, with 11,000 unique users since August, will send you a text message when a potential match arises. It will also hit you with a $2 surcharge for each transaction and take...
...weeks ago, when Kimberley Process members sat down to their annual plenary meeting in Botswana to discuss how the watchdog system was working, the pressure for tighter oversight had ratcheted up. Responding to a U.N. report that poor controls are allowing conflict diamonds from war-torn Ivory Coast to enter the legitimate trade through neighboring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict free, the diamond industry agreed not only to send a group to Ghana to ensure that it was complying with its obligations but also to publish annual industry-wide production and trade statistics for the first time...
DIED. Lee Gordon, 84, the first U.S. prisoner of war to escape a German camp during World War II; in Menlo Park, Calif. In October 1943, after two failed attempts to flee Stalag VIIA, he used a fake ID tag to enter an outdoor work area, sneaked past a distracted guard and walked away. He reunited with Allies through a French Resistance group, arriving a free man in England a year later. In the 2000 TV documentary Escape from a Living Hell, he recalled stumbling, free, into a French café: "The waitress walked up to me. I looked...
...Saturday, a white-haired man will enter Harvard Stadium and take his usual seat among the Crimson faithful in Section 37.Unlike those around him, John Norton will be watching The Game from the stands for the 62nd consecutive year.This year will mark the 123rd football game between Harvard and Yale, and Norton has been on hand for slightly more than half of them.It’s all part of a tremendous streak of 370 consecutive home games that Norton has attended at the Stadium, starting in 1943.Literally nothing can keep him away. “I went through...