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...years ago this weekend, was the one with two guys in a room, and to keep his wife and child alive one of them is told he has to kill the other one, and to do that he must saw off his foot. And their disturbed jailer is a master strategist who mistreats them the way an angry kid does his toys. When Jigsaw, their torturer, says, "I want to play a game," it's a game of life and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...build the altar and bring in the deities. It’s going to be a really fun way to celebrate our heritage together,” he said. Harvard’s biggest Diwali tradition is the annual bash hosted at Lowell House by House Master Diana L. Eck, when over 150 students come together to sing, celebrate, and share food and stories. This year it will be held on Nov. 5, and will actually fall on the day that King Rama was coronated. Dharma co-president Utpal Sandesara ’08 said that the event is open...

Author: By K. blair Harshbarger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Revels in Festival of Lights | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Prestige, which he co-wrote with his brother, Jonathan, presents us with two magicians, at first friends but soon enough deadly rivals: Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), slick and romantically appealing, is a master of on-stage presentation; Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is his technical superior, but nowhere near so commanding a figure in the theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old-Fashioned Magic on the Big Screen | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...Master Cracks the Whip How John Negroponte won control of the CIA, and what he plans next to consolidate rival agencies and his power

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tipping Point for Iraq—Here at Home | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...You’ve got to get you’re hands dirty if you want to achieve the impossible,” their magician master Cutter (Michael Caine), advises early in the film. His two prodigies seem brainwashed by this doctrine, as they don unconvincing disguises and sabotage each others’ acts—leaving behind them a trail of casualties...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: "The Prestige" | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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