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...said of Page's festival, which runs through March 14. When he inherited it from Californian opera director Peter Sellars, the biennial event was not in good shape. Sellars had tried to explode the traditional multi-arts model by pouring more money into film and grassroots programs. But his quest for a communal love-in turned into war with the festival's board. Box office and sponsorship flagged, and Sellars walked before the festival began...
...broadcast their dissatisfaction with the options America’s two major parties offered, but they have learned an important lesson. Nader, apparently, has not. Faced with lackluster support, an outdated platform and opposition on all sides, he has stubbornly embarked on what voters must recognize is an empty quest...
...issue here is to avert “Snore 2004”—I would draw the Democrats’ attention to the film that won eleven Oscars last Sunday: the final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It was not the hobbits’ quest for more generous Medicare benefits that made that epic film so captivating. Nor was it Aragorn’s rousing rhetoric on the “two Middle-earths.” No, it was the struggle between good and evil and the triumph over tyranny that captured our hearts...
...slicing large evil people into large-evil-people cutlets. Motivation is not a problem. In Ninja Gaiden (Xbox; $49.99), the latest installment in a venerable series that began on the old Nintendo Entertainment System, you play a limber little guy wearing a purple pantsuit who's on some major quest, the point of which is not easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars) at a guy in samurai armor and then decapitating...
...glance around the office reveals the paraphernalia of Zittrain and Nesson’s somewhat quixotic legal quest. By the wall are two dormant computers which spent the fall of 2002 meticulously logging into Chinese proxy servers to compile a comprehensive list of what information the communist government was blocking. Nesson’s laptop, meanwhile, has three filesharing services installed, which he says he starts up from time to time “to see what’s happening...