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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...author of 65 books, most of them mysteries written using the pseudonyms Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters, some of them books about Egypt under her own name. It is her Peters alter ego who has the latest book out: Children of the Storm (Morrow). It continues the Egypt-based saga of heroine Amelia Peabody, a spirited archaeologist, and her headstrong archaeologist husband Radcliffe Emerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Achievers: Mystery Tours | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...scoured the outer reaches of the festival, you can find weird extravagance in an Asian film. The Directors' Fortnight presented Takashi Miike's latest outrage, Gozu, an entertaining yakuza saga that ends with the birth of a fully grown man from the womb of a woman in severe discomfort. (Sure, it's all special effects, but still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reel and Real | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...accounting reforms aimed at closing some of the banking industry's favorite loopholes for inflating their capital bases?which is why Resona had to ask for help. And since the bases at Japan's other major banks are also dwindling thanks to a relentlessly falling stock market, the Resona saga may soon have a sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Bust | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca di Meo - had the patience to pen a doorstopper like Q. The novel is a sweeping saga of the 16th century religious wars touched off by the Reformation. Fast-paced, richly detailed and teeming with hundreds of characters, it throbs with violence, heroism, betrayal and sex. The main character, who often changes his name to escape death, witnesses Martin Luther declaiming at Wittenberg, fights in religious wars across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penned It Like Blissett | 5/18/2003 | See Source »

...epic saga of Harvard’s attempt to acquire more land in Allston continues. Resisting pressure applied by local politicians, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority recently decided to go ahead with an $80 million sale of 91 acres of Allston land to the University. A CSX railyard lies on part of this property, a vital link in Boston’s freight and commuter rail transportation network. This link should not be severed, but at the same time, selling the land to Harvard will endanger the railroad...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The 47-Acre Shuffle | 5/7/2003 | See Source »

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