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...that's true, the mandate has slipped from her grasp at the most inopportune time imaginable. Campaigning has just begun for Indonesia's first direct presidential election, set for July 5, and the incumbent is suddenly beset by credible challengers. One is Megawati's former Security Minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, leader of Partai Demokrat, a new populist party. Another is Wiranto, a former general under Suharto, who last week was nominated as Golkar's presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Megawati Be Ousted? | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults. Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...faculty worry that the same problems plaguing the current advising system—including difficulties getting students to come see their advisers—would hurt the center. And some department officials are skeptical that professional advisers could grasp the in and outs of the concentrations...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advising May Face Overhaul | 4/14/2004 | See Source »

...Jesus' subsequent descent into what they called Hades as a kind of divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened the devil to a mouse, the Cross to a mousetrap and Christ to the bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Why Did Jesus Die? | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...seem childish to the uninitiated. But try playing 15 minutes of a Legend of Zelda game, particularly 1998's Ocarina of Time. Next thing you know, it's 3 a.m. Miyamoto has an uncanny ability to come up with a puzzle whose difficulty keeps pace with a player's grasp of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: You Ought to Be in Pixels | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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