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...years, crossing the Atlantic 1,001 times, three of them carrying Winston Churchill. During World War II, she gave up her old rich crowd to carry servicemen and their families. She was much beloved. So last week, when Queen Elizabeth II stood in blustery winds on a pier in Southampton, England, and released a bottle of champagne against the bow of the dowager's heir to christen her the Queen Mary 2, the new vessel, the largest cruise ship ever built, had a huge legacy to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen of the Sea | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...like the Titanic hitting the iceberg, but instead the side of the boat was ripped out by these giant wooden beams." ROBERT CARROLL, a passenger on the Staten Island ferry in New York City that crashed into a pier, killing at least 10 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Oct. 27, 2003 | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...like the Titanic." Robert Carrol, passenger on the Staten Island Ferry in New York City that crashed into a pier, killing at least 10 people

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

Unless you somehow chance upon the grislier works of Pier Pasolini in the coming years, Kill Bill: Volume One will be the most violent film you ever see. The squirmy ear-carving of director Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs was but a light appetizer to Kill Bill’s sanguineous mound of beef tartar. Countless appendages are whittled off from their previous proprietors, who all too frequently remain alive long enough to writhe about, expelling their share of the hundred gallons of fake blood Tarantino supposedly utilized for in the film’s production...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Sussed Out | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...vendor. They like to shop around. When her mom remarried in August, Ellen got a new room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston surf shop. Stepdad Terry Letteer approves of the overall look but admits there was a price: "My son got a big-screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tween Eye for Design | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

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