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...This first episode shows him well on his way to creating a film epic that nearly matches its source. Fellowship is not simply a sumptuous illustration of a favorite fable; though faithful in every detail to Tolkien, it has a vigorous life of its own--grandeur, moral heft and emotional depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...volume, combining a tasteful cover image of Memorial Hall with a thick, sweet-smelling paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Pointing Us Nowhere | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...radical. He listens patiently to the instructor, and he offers the obligatory commentary on the loopy bunch that signs up for these classes. Anyone who has handled a gun before, or who has seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New American Way: Only Food And Guns | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...radical. He listens patiently to the instructor, and he offers the obligatory commentary on the loopy bunch that signs up for these classes. Anyone who has handled a gun before, or who has seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New American Way: Only Food And Guns | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...With 15,000 companies as customers, it had the heft to branch out into specialized software for 19 industries - well ahead of Ellison's Oracle, its closest competitor in this business. In recent years SAP has expanded into building links from the inside of these companies to emerging e-marketplaces, tying together suppliers and customers so they can easily transact online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hasso Plattner | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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