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...Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World War II, then found their pensions denied them after the Algerian conflict - an inspiring and troubling true story, encased in a deeply ordinary movie. A pair of young U.S. directors tried their hand at political...
...past the LAN-party circuit. Featuring drummer Spencer Seim from post-hardcore savants Hella, the group legitimizes the project in part with their impressive underground cred. The songs on the album range from spazzed-out level select ditties to "Kraid's Lair," a haunting boss theme from the classic NES game "Metroid." Regardless of origin, all the tracks burst out of the tightly-wound rock quartet with a depth only hinted at in their previous, synthesized iterations. The concept, while undoubtedly gimmicky, is far from innovative; suburban nerds with Nintendos and guitars have been combining their twin passions even before...
...eastern Bolivia, where most of the gas is situated, to secede. Morales met with business leaders there last week to calm their fears, but he insisted to TIME that "the foreign companies have to be subordinate to the Bolivian people. We need them to be partners and not patrónes [owners] of our natural resources...
...there something in the water? Dénes Kemény can't think of any other explanation for Hungary's stellar record in water polo. From 1928 to 1980, the Hungarian men won medals at every Olympics, taking home gold six times. In 2000, they won their seventh title. "Hungary has lots of spas," says Kemény, who coached the squad to gold in Sydney and hopes to repeat that success at this year's Summer Games. Nature's gift allowed players to train all year round even before the era of indoor swimming pools. But can Hungary...
...build a home-video-game console broke down in 1990, Kutaragi demonstrated vision and management expertise. Rather than concede the business to Nintendo, he formed a team within Sony to build a better system, pressing ahead against internal opposition. PlayStation, released in late 1994, vaulted over Nintendo's Super NES to become the world's top home-gaming platform. A few years later, Kutaragi took a bigger gamble on PlayStation 2, sinking $2.5 billion into the start-up; it has captured about 75% of the home-video-game-console market. Kutaragi's division racked up nearly $10 billion in annual...