Word: millennium
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...make an antiwar war movie? How, in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and with the dispute over Jerusalem still roiling Israeli-Palestinian tensions, do you create a film that both explains and criticizes Christian Europe's invasion and occupation of Jerusalem almost a millennium ago? Scott's implicit answer: the way a porcupine makes love. Very carefully...
...that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried something might be seriously wrong with her. But it also felt vertiginous, even perilous, to have this world to myself...
This slim volume recounts Latin America’s last half-millennium, evaluating watershed moments with Vargas Llosa’s trademark enthusiasm for the free market. Concentrating on such ostensible reforms as the Mexican Revolution, economic nationalism, and the liberalizing policies of the 1990s, the book establishes that Latin America’s statist culture has stifled economic growth by limiting individual rights. Far from liberation, these “reforms” meant that “ownership changed hands while property rights remained in the hands of the government...
When Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw stepped onto the cultural scene at the dawn of the millennium, the chick-lit heroine became one of the most powerful icons around. Thanks to these two, the marriageable female of a certain class—always a popular subject for writers and artists—has acquired a career, a shopping fixation, and an astounding ability to get herself into embarrassing situations. She likes to label the men in her life: “the emotional fuckwit” in Bridget’s case, or “the fuck-buddy?...
Last Wednesday, the RIAA filed 400 lawsuits against college students across the nation, including 11 against Harvard students for sharing music files over a high-speed academic network. The lawsuits are filed under the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act and seek $2,000 per file in compensation—though they’re usually settled for $3,000 out of court. Unfortunately, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) followed suit on Thursday, filing similar lawsuits against students at 12 universities...