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...bursts onto the screen this weekend. Onto it and out of it, for this latest concoction from the tummlers at Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks shop is being tub-thumped as the first feature-length animated movie to be conceived as a 3-D spectacle (not just converted to the format). As such, it's zazzy and colorful, its creatures no less graphically plausible for seeming like they're ready to leap into your lap. (See pictures of animated movies for kids and adults...
...messed up the prime-time television schedule for a press conference. Six weeks ago, he had a different message: The nation was facing a financial abyss, he explained, and lots had to be done, and fast, to prevent a prolonged economic catastrophe. Now he had returned to the same format to say that that the ship was slowly turning and the problems would be solved. Teachers and police officers were keeping their jobs, he said in his introduction, reading from a large TV screen. Stimulus tax cuts were finding their way into paychecks. Mortgage interest rates were at historic lows...
...faced the immediate challenge of fitting into a highly-structured program after largely self-coaching through high school.“It was a very big transition for us [to Division I swimming],” says Bill, citing weight training, two-a-day practices, and the large team format as college revelations. “Those three things, along with interactions with the coach really worked well, and we both dropped significant times.”As much as the Jones brothers gained from Harvard swimming, they also gave back to the program, bringing infectious dedication and intensity...
...said that he checked the menu everyday in order to eat healthfully, called the new format “confusing...
...bizarre minimalist format (“STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE [verb] [clause].” Now repeat that four times.), and it even seems uncertain about its own content ("content is non-specialized and may include essays, interviews, treatises, projects. propositions...”—you get the drift). Sources report it's the brainchild of Sabrina Chou...