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Despite the fact that the judge had gone so far as to laugh at one of the customs agents earlier in the trial, Okhotin said he was shaken by his brusque attitude to the defense lawyers...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Divinity School Student Prosecuted in Moscow Court | 8/15/2003 | See Source »

...American imperialists. She tries to convince them it's a Malcolm X pin and that she supports America's oppressed minorities. "Back then, Michael Jackson was still black," she notes. By deflecting moments of abject fear with humor, Satrapi proves the best way to exorcise tyranny may be to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art History | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...electronica, there's a soulless quality to this record, not helped by Hayman's insistence on recording with a drum machine. His DIY aesthetic has its own appeal, but without guitars to ground it, his plaintive voice risks floating off into nasal helium. But he can still make me laugh. The best track is Gabriel in the Airport, a wicked attack on the pretensions of Peter Gabriel: "And the British Airways girls they sigh/ Saying 'There goes that Phil Collins guy.'" Listening to the French is much like listening to the indie-rock god Stephen Malkmus' solo work; it gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vive the French! | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...something different every day. It's Mother Nature--that's what you're fighting. You're taking the coal from it. It was put there millions of years ago, and it wants to stay there." Fogle is a barrel-chested man with a substantial belly, a frequent high-pitched laugh and the easy authority of someone who has directed tough men for years under difficult conditions. The doctors got his heart rate under control shortly after the escape but put him on a lifelong medication. They warned him that the experience had aggravated an esophageal condition and told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine Came Up. One Went Back | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...Kids movies for a mere $38 million each, even though they featured marquee idols Antonio Banderas and George Clooney, and they made nearly $200 million. "Robert does everything but act, although now he has his kids in the movie as well," observes Bob Weinstein with a gravelly laugh. "If I were Antonio Banderas, I'd be a little nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family Man | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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