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...test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea's.) To put it another way: Western filmmakers are looking for infantile or cartoon solutions; the Asians are the grownups, the realists, the inch-by-inch copers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reel and Real | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

With the help of his son Marcus’ roommate, who happened to be a plastics aeronautics engineer, Consolini pulled together a prototype of the shoe for the six-by-six-inch posts after scraping together...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Promoter of Voice Mail Moves To Belize, Invents Plastic ‘Shoe’ | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...entrepreneurial Consolini, however, that was not the end of his invention. When he found out that the American market was potentially much more lucrative—porches and verandas call for a surprising number of four-by-six-inch posts, he says—Consolini decided to spring another $148,000 for the four-by-six-inch prototype. This time he got the go-ahead for the hefty investment from his children...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Promoter of Voice Mail Moves To Belize, Invents Plastic ‘Shoe’ | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...much as the administration may be hoping that next week's summit provides the spur that gets Israelis and Palestinians to work on resolving their problems bilaterally, every indication thus far is that every inch of progress along the "roadmap" will require considerable prodding from Washington. And making himself indispensable to a long-shot Middle East peace process on the eve of a U.S. presidential election season may carry considerable political and diplomatic risk for the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mideast: Can Bush Deliver? | 5/27/2003 | See Source »

...ride on a blackhorse/A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys--but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory that has been covered far more eloquently by Tool and Nine Inch Nails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

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