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Hitchcock himself would probably have liked It’s Only a Movie. It brings an air of playfulness to its subject. But playfulness can only go so far, and in a book of over three hundred pages, the fluff eventually fizzles into a sticky mess...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitchcock Bio Gives Reader Vertigo | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...mess-up races against Yale where we were winning 90 percent of the time and lost right before the finish line,” Johnson said...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Earns Top Ranking | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...Negroponte is to rein in the conflicting interests of such a far-flung bureaucracy, he will need firm backing from President Bush. Otherwise, bureaucratic rivalries, exacerbated by overlapping duties and jurisdictions, could perpetuate the mess that Senator Robb and judge Silberman say must be cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Read: The WMD Intel Report | 4/2/2005 | See Source »

...like it has with Israel, which has sold $35 million in arms to China since 2000. It clears purchases that might disturb the U.S. in advance. That degree of subservience won't fly in Paris or Berlin-nor end China's human-rights abuses. Sighs a British diplomat: "This mess isn't going away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned in Beijing | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...used to be under sanctions and the economic conditions were dire, but never was the city so ugly. Between the chopped trees and the burned houses, it's a total mess." FADHILA DAWOUD, Iraqi school teacher, on the physical state of Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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