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Gross also discussed her evolution as an interviewer, citing her 26 years of experience as paramount to her improvement and success...

Author: By Alethea R. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Terry Gross Engrosses Students With Lecture | 10/10/2001 | See Source »

...were in 1941. We're not likely, for instance, to see the equivalent of the racist caricatures of the Japanese as screeching simians. Whatever bigotry rises among the public, tolerance seems cemented in the culture of official and corporate America. Even before the attacks, Paramount changed a terrorist group in an adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears from Arabs to neo-Nazis, says chairman Sherry Lansing, and she doubts she would green-light a movie with an Arab baddie today. "You [hear about] these Afghan or Arab children in high schools who are getting picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Entertainment Now? | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...clerics, especially among the rifle-wielding Pashtun tribesmen of the northwest frontier, are calling for a holy war against America. They are of the same tribe as the Taliban across the border. Tribesmen believe that Musharraf is breaking their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes acquainted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Edge: A Nation with Nukes | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...clerics, especially among the rifle-wielding Pashtun tribesmen of the northwest frontier, are calling for a holy war against America. They are of the same tribe as the Taliban across the border. Tribesmen believe that Musharraf is breaking their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes acquainted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Edge: A Nation with Nukes | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...Paramount Pictures...

Author: By Matthew Callahan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Out'land'ish Trip | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

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