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CHALLENGES: The film had the opposite problem of most adaptations. It had to expand an 11-page short story to feature length. The screenwriters filled out the relationships of the cowboy lovers with their wives and families. The rest author Annie Proulx made easy; much of her dialogue is included verbatim in the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Vs. Movies | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...company aims to close, eliminating 30,000 jobs. Taylor is surprised the plant has lasted this long. "We have to put buckets under the machines to catch the leaking oil," he says. Buick City, where he works, was once a vast manufacturing complex more than a mile in length. It's now mostly a desolate field of crushed stone surrounded by parking lots too big for GM's shrinking workforce. If you didn't know you were in Flint, Mich., you might think you were at an old Soviet factory that made nameless products no one really wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How GM Can Fix Itself | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...future for peer-to-peer file sharing services is, lately, looking a bit bleak. The page for StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus has a disclaimer about copyright infringement at the bottom that has grown to about three times its former length over the past two months. LimeWire now requires users to agree that they “will not use LimeWire…for copyright infringement” before they can download the software. The page for i2hub, which closed down last week under pressure from the recording industry, has been replaced with a simple memorial reading...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: bye2hub | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...week later against Brown, Harvard needed a last-minute, length-of-the-field drive to tie the score against the Bears and send the game to overtime in a contest the Crimson evnetually...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Defense Finishes Strong | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...point that he was the embodiment of his multiethnic empire, or was he just having a bit of fun? Hongli, Yongzheng's favorite son and Kangxi's most beloved grandson, became the Qianlong Emperor in 1736 when he was 24. He abdicated 60 years later, not wanting the length of his reign to eclipse that of his grandfather. During that time, he consolidated the Qing empire, strengthened the bureaucracy, improved tax collection and amassed one of the greatest art collections of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art Of Power | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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