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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Through extensive interviews with Murch, Ondaatje reveals a man whose intense perfectionism and extra-keen powers of perception have helped produce some of America’s greatest films. What does this imply about the role played by Ondaatje’s own editors? When asked by an audience member how he felt when before handing over his manuscript to his editors, Ondaatje said “terrified.” But he admitted that writing is far less collaborative than film. With the whim of his pen, a writer can transform Turkey into China—and then potentially...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something to Talk About | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...telecoms operators to reduce customer churn is to offer additional services. "The most successful carriers will be those that provide customers with the Bluetooth services they are demanding," he says. But customers can't demand CTP until they know it exists - and mobile operators don't seem overly keen to tell them

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bluetooth Can't Bite | 11/3/2002 | See Source »

...becomes the most fearsome basketball player around, and an icon at his high school. From here, Teen Wolf basically follows the typical zero-to-hero storyline where the protagonist is eventually led to forsake his newfound popularity and return to his nice-guy status. But a more keen evaluation shows that by the time the movie is half over, Teen Wolf has become...

Author: By Sam A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Culture Flashback | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...which is it? Is the CIA politicizing the intelligence on Iraq to help the hard-liners persuade people that war is in the national interest? Or is Tenet, a former Senate staff member with keen survival instincts, working to keep the moderates happy too? Tenet denies both charges. "It's ludicrous," he told TIME. "I work for a guy who expects our honest judgment, period. There's no cooking of the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics and the CIA | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet Vietnamese | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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