Word: methods
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...movie of the silent era. In its bold editing and composition of shots, in its alternation of intimate scenes with spectacular battles and a final thrilling chase, the film established a cinematic textbook, a fully formed visual language, for generations of directors. The potent drama of its subject and method stirred President Woodrow Wilson to say, "It is like writing history with lightning; my only regret is that it is all so terribly true...
...comes down to a question of priorities: best effort vs. efficiency, recommended method vs. personal style, GPA vs. the college experience. No one holds our hand here, and the choice is our own. Some just take a little bit longer in making...
...Millennial generation is involved in community service to an incredible extent—a recent survey found that fully 60 percent of 18-24 year-olds view community volunteerism as the most effective method of improving society. Young people today give unprecedented amounts of time and energy to public service. Channelling that drive into political activism will produce top-down change by electing candidates dedicated to youth concerns: the environment, clean elections, the future of social welfare programs. Combining community volunteerism with political engagement will solve both local and national problems more effectively than either tactic could alone. Economic dynamism...
...Despite his grief, Bharat Mani Jnawali understands why his elder brother's March 13 death faded from the headlines after a day. "This is a very common method," he says. "It happens to hundreds. They cut different parts of the body off and then only at the end, they chop your head. Shooting would be easier, of course, but this is more intense. It's for the fear." And it's working. When the corpse arrived in Kathmandu for cremation, Congress leaders came to pay their respects. To Jnawali, who had seen his brother's wounds, the sight...
...clean up the fiasco that was A.I., Steven Spielberg’s latest jaunt into sci-fi goes all-out, Indiana Jones-style. Based on the short story by science fiction guru Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is set in 2054 Washington, D.C., where a psychic method called Pre-Crime witnesses, verifies, arrests and convicts murderers before they even commit their crime. But when the head of the Pre-Crime division (Cruise) is accused of the murder of a man he hasn’t even met yet, he finds himself being stalked by a fellow officer (Colin Farrell...