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After a disastrous midterm election season for their party, Sen. John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) announcement this week that he will toss his hat into the 2004 presidential ring has given Harvard Democrats reason to celebrate...
...global mobile-phone standard, SIM cards carry a user's account data and can be swapped from phone to phone. Cybird turned them into moneymakers: a SIM card branded with Hong Kong's hot pop act Twins is a fan's must-have, with the duo's ring tone, screensaver and concert dates. So far, it's a hit. "If there's no market," says Hori, "we create...
Viewers, beware. The Two Towers, the dazzling second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, picks up exactly where the first one left off. No Star Wars--style scroll to bring you up to speed, no quick compilation of scenes from the first film, no opening Cate Blanchett narration--nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack...
...often hear directors telling you to stay away from their pictures. But Jackson is the definition of a purist. For him, The Two Towers is not a sequel to The Fellowship of the Ring; it's simply the three-hour second act of an epic nine-hour trilogy called Lord of the Rings. The complete dvd should be available...
...earth (shot in various New Zealand locales) to the city of Isengard (a composite of models and computer-generated imagery), which is destroyed--spectacularly--by a brigade of towering, treelike creatures known as Ents. Meanwhile, the hobbit hero Frodo (Elijah Wood) continues his quest: he must destroy the magic Ring before the Dark Lord Sauron can use it to rule the world. Aragorn (played by Mortensen, who transforms himself before your eyes from brooding beefcake to full-blown movie star) embarks across the desolate plains of Middle-earth to salvage what's left of mankind. Arrayed against...