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...chick's death and about director Jacquet's refusal to impose human emotions on his subjects. Above all, the harsh blue-and-white beauty of this frozen world and the black-and-white birds assiduously heeding their ancient instincts--which bring life to a place where, in all logic, it should not exist--are very moving. It's a gentle film about somewhat alien beings, who entertain us by creating instead of destroying...
...blind alley," says Jim Wheaton, who teaches media law at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. "If the Supreme Court had taken the case, it was likely to say there's no privilege, period." Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism department, understood the logic of Time Inc.'s ultimate decision. "I find it hard to get worked up into the same outrage as others about the Time decision, which seems to me to be a practical decision," he told the Wall Street Journal...
...Angeles Times last week introduced a fiendishly addictive puzzle that in recent months has been stumping players from Taiwan to Tbilisi. Sudoku, which loosely translates to "single number" in Japanese, is a deceptively simple game of logic that consists of a nine-by-nine-square grid, broken into three-by-three-square cells. The object: fill each square with a number from 1 to 9 so that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle...
...Jakarta or wrecking a slum-area store in Los Angeles-with a phrase like 'reckless, ignorant vandalism' is a political judgment," Cohen has written. He agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage on a new technology that threatened their handicraft jobs...
...four of his last seven films in black and white, sees colorizing as "mutilating a work of art and holding the audience in contempt. I hope people will rise up and put a stop to it." Billy Wilder puckishly sees the debate as a "black-and-white case of logic." Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull) is worried that the process will be used on less popular movies that "would be totally changed and destroyed by color. It would be insane to do this just to get a bigger audience." Says Director Jeremy Paul Kagan: "It's as if somebody put blue...