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...cardiac arrest or an Apache [helicopter], I prefer to be killed by an Apache." ABDEL AZIZ RANTISI, interim Hamas leader in Gaza, responding to Israel's new hard-line policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

Even people who love the Coen brothers prefer the idea of the Coen brothers. Or just like being people who like the Coen brothers. Their movies can sometimes be disjointed, silly, hit-and-miss cartoons, but even those give you a glimpse of the brothers' Platonic ideal: hyperintellectual, dizzyingly creative, unpretentious truth. Appreciating a Coen brothers movie is partially about seeing not what is on the screen but what you want to see there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: They Ain't Heavy... | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...need a serious, fire-’em-up speech, but that time is small compared to the times when you need to make the best of it and just have fun,” she said. “I guess I can do both, but I prefer to do more jokes and be more lighthearted...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Captains Concoct Team Chemistry, Success | 3/26/2004 | See Source »

...Herms says that HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley would prefer to ignore the StalCommPol calculation of Harvard’s high violent crime rate...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crime Study May Have Flawed Analysis | 3/26/2004 | See Source »

...most music lovers. For the truly demanding there is now Aria, a music-themed five-star hotel in the picturesque Malá Strana district. It features 52 rooms and suites celebrating four musical genres and their best-known artists. Opera buffs can choose Mozart or Verdi, orchestral fans might prefer Debussy or Vivaldi; jazz lovers might go for Miles Davis while popsters can choose the Beatles. Each room has its own DVD/CD player and computerized jukebox with works of the featured artist. The library holds more than 1,000 books and some 2,000 CDs and DVDs. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping With Mozart | 3/21/2004 | See Source »

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