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Accordingly, Trojan takes his time, drawing the story out and eschewing the fast-paced action-oriented style of most Hollywood films, while still maintaining the audience’s undivided attention. There are extended moments in this film when the Germans seem far, far away and the bitterest and most dangerous of Eliska’s enemies seem to be limited to that shifty-eyed drunk who lives on the other side of the hill. Once directly confronted by the war, however, all of the villagers quickly come together and even the unlikeliest of heroes come to their neighbors?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...fast food is not the only attraction of Loker Grill’s late night scene: pool tables and an old-fashioned jukebox add to the charm. Students will also be able to rent out the grill for nighttime music performances, HUDS server Ron Hunt says. He also approves of the grill’s soundtrack, saying there is “a nice variety, a little something for everyone...

Author: By Rebecca M. Myerson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the New Late-Night Loker Grill Hot Stuff? | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...trend shows no sign of abating. Ali Kasikci, managing director of the Peninsula Beverly Hills, is working on a plan to give custom-made steamer trunks to six of his best clients. With personalization fast becoming the luxury-industry standard, Kasikci wants to stay ahead of the curve. "Otherwise," he says, "we're just part of the sea of sameness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Hotel Heaven | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Even for the casually religious, such seeming reductionism can rankle. The very meaning of faith, after all, is to hold fast to something without all the tidy cause and effect that science finds so necessary. Try parsing things the way geneticists do, and you risk parsing them into dust. "God is not something that can be demonstrated logically or rigorously," says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. "[The idea of a God gene] goes against all my personal theological convictions." John Polkinghorne, a physicist who is also Canon Theologian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Is God in Our Genes? | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Another team, meanwhile, recently published an analysis showing that Tyrannosaurus rex grew (and thus metabolized) at an impressively fast rate--suggesting that it might have been warm-blooded like birds. "There's now so much material [linking dinosaurs and birds] that I can't imagine anybody being able to ignore it," says paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Dinosaur Tales | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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