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Most horror movies live and gruesomely die in the moment: the splattered head or severed limb gives viewers a quick thrill or a giggle, a jolt to the nervous system, that lingers no longer than a shiver. The films of Japanese director Hideo Nakata--The Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999), Chaos (1999) and Dark Water (2002)--take a subtler route to spooking audiences. In his thrillers, Nakata concentrates less on the explosion of the time bomb than on the ticking inside it: abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...third countries to help us slow the tide," says an E.U. official. "But we don't have much to give them in exchange." The slim number of immigrants European countries are willing to admit they need still doesn't approach the number of those willing to risk life and limb to get to Europe. On the Italian island of Lampedusa, where hundreds of desperate immigrants have washed ashore in recent years, finance police commander Romeo Cavallin knows there's no easy fix. "As long as there's misery on the other shoreline," he says, "they'll keep coming...
Monday through Friday, their mornings start at 9 o'clock and are filled with hours of physical and occupational therapy. They also take bus trips and tour the capital. The typical stay averages about six months--half the time healing and preparing for an artificial limb, the other half learning to live with it. The pain is decreased by the presence of family members, many of whom can live on Walter Reed's 147-acre campus. Although the soldiers relish stop-bys from stars like Bruce Willis and Jennifer Love Hewitt, they glow when speaking of getting their Purple Hearts...
...roll of the dice determines which students are exiled there. Although Quad residents no longer have to walk miles to play tennis at six in the morning, as they did in the early days of Radcliffe, College administrators continue to struggle with the inequalities that characterize a limb of Harvard that remains tenuously attached. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 says one of his priorities is the “revitalization” of the Quad, which he hopes to accomplish by moving important student services up Garden Street...