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...Indiana Jones, another Saturday matinee hero, the icon of the three-film collaboration with Spielberg that promises another installment one of these years. He?s also preparing a DVD release of the Young Indiana Jones TV series, with a one-hour documentary on the subject of each episode...
...regatta went on,” Devlin said. “It was a lot of fun to improve, and to see things get better for us.” A fluctuating wind affected conditions both days for the Crimson, especially on Saturday. The regatta was delayed an hour and a half by an eastern breeze, but it leveled out later in the day—something that seemed to frustrate sailors on every team. “In the first four races, there was a little bit more breeze,” Devlin said. “It dropped...
...directors don't subscribe to the cheap-date theory of movie attendance--that kids go to get out of the house, to be with their peers and away from their parents. Directors also ignore the complaints about moviegoing--the glop on the floor, the indifferent projection, the half an hour of ads and in the row behind you a nattering couple rehearsing their Jerry Springer act. No, to directors, moviegoing is an almost religious act: a Mass experience. You walk into a cathedral, feel your spirit soar with hundreds of other communicants and watch the transubstantiation of images into feelings...
...seat of his armored SUV. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has just emerged from a meeting at the sprawling riverside home of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who heads the coalition of Shi'ite parties that controls Iraq's incoming parliament. It didn't go well. For more than an hour, Khalilzad tried to persuade al-Hakim to help revive the Iraqi political process, stalled in part because the Shi'ites refuse to bend to demands by secular, Kurdish and Sunni parties that Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari not be given a second term. Al-Hakim didn't want to confront...
...conference on women in leadership,” Summers joked at the beginning of his remarks. Grasping a tightly leashed microphone while casually leaning against a podium, Summers appeared comfortable with the audience of nearly 100 people, speaking without notes and cracking the occasional joke during his half-hour-long remarks. Summers said that since January 2005, when he delivered his now-infamous remarks at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, he has learned that “the preconceptions that I had were wrong.” “I spoke in ways...14 months...