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...under the roots of a tree. You see the bugs, the insects crawling out and dropping onto the Hobbits. There's such great atmosphere. I think that's the key for me. When [other] directors were rendering fantasy movies, they had all this shiny armor and shiny castles. And Peter came from a horror aesthetic. He rendered that fantasy world in the way that either a historian or a Hammer film fan would do it. They were very texturally rich and dark. And that's what hooked me into the trilogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guillermo Del Toro on Vampires | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Still, Biden and the business executives noted that there were limits to what the stimulus could do. Peter Harckham, a legislator from New York's Westchester County, said that money from the stimulus bill, while helpful, would leave his county about $1 billion short of its target budget for upgrading local water and sewage systems. The Vice President responded that the stimulus package was not meant to shift the burdens of local governments to the federal budget. Once the stimulus money is gone, Biden said, Westchester will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Biden Show-and-Tell: How the Stimulus Has Created Jobs | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...McLoughlin says that in the wake of the death of Peter Cai ’10 last October, Hammonds—who has a six-year-old son—“took to heart the tragic situation” and recurrently brought up her concerns about Cai’s death and the impact it had on his family and friends. But, McLoughlin says, it took that “tragic” event for her to realize that “House communities are so much closer than she knew...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: A Disconnected Dean | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...unusual,” his mother Ann Thole recalls of his early years. A graduate of an all-boys Catholic high school in downtown Chicago, Forst was the editor of the high school newspaper who exhibited “quiet leadership,” according to high school friend Peter Wuertz. Described by his three closest high school friends as the social planner of the group, Forst would later become president of the final club D.U. (which would eventually merge with the Fly) at Harvard and then serve as co-chair for his 20th and 25th reunions years, cultivating...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...remain opposed to a tally, there does seem to be a growing acceptance of the judicious citing of body counts to combat Taliban propaganda that shows only U.S. deaths and civilian casualties. "Publication of this information is part of the information campaign, and I think it's justified," says Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel who served as a top aide to General David Petraeus in Iraq from February 2007 to May 2008. "But I don't know that I'd go so far as to do every single death," says Mansoor, who now teaches military history at Ohio State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Military Return to Counting Bodies? | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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