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...find out what went wrong. Beautifully wrong, for all the passengers have been infected with a palpable vision of someone they have loved and lost. Waking to find a perfect facsimile of his late wife (Natascha McElhone), Kelvin soon surrenders to what seems like a gift from the grave. Steven Soderbergh's remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's science-fiction classic, based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, can't touch the 1972 film's austere poignancy, and McElhone lacks the bewitching beauty of Natalya Bondarchuk in the original Solaris. But the project's gravity and ambition can't be denied. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outer and Inner Space | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...choice was the English department’s to make, and may the shame of their endorsement follow them to the grave. But those who love freedom may also exercise their rights of free speech. All the hatred and calumny in the world cannot obscure the achievement of the state of Israel. The more others try to smear the citizens and aspirations of the Jewish state, the more its admirers are bound to proclaim its accomplishments. Israel has withstood thousands of terrorist attacks in the last two years—a situation Americans can hardly imagine?...

Author: By Ruth R. Wisse, | Title: Flip-Flop Not About Free Speech | 11/26/2002 | See Source »

...into darkness again and again, and although I was climbing up I kept matching my step to the rhythm of the lines from “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay that run, “Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave, Gently they...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Spare Changes | 11/26/2002 | See Source »

...author inspires many listeners to riffle through the back catalog in search of foreshadowing--the spookier the better. For instance, when Jeff Buckley, who walked into the Mississippi River one evening and never walked out, sang, "This is our last goodbye," he must have known he had a watery grave in his future, right? And when Kurt Cobain growled, "I swear that I don't have a gun," he was just being gruesomely ironic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Guitar Gently Wept | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...paraded before the press rebutted those who had despaired of Indonesia ever taking action in the fight against terror. The police made a series of amazingly swift arrests and promised more soon. But for all the sound and fury surrounding the investigations, disturbing questions remain unanswered?questions that have grave implications for the likelihood of future terrorist attacks in Indonesia and the region. Why can't Indonesian and Australian forensics analysts even agree on the composition of the bomb? Who actually built the bomb?none of those captured even pretended to have the expertise?and what happened to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will They Strike Next? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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