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...Steve McEveety, has produced films like “The Passion of the Christ,” “Braveheart,” and “We Were Soldiers.” Why does suddenly throwing Mel Gibson into this mix make it even scarier? I honestly hope that “An American Carol” is not the beginning of a trend because I like my truth truer than Mpower’s. Most people laugh in movies because they think, “Yes! That is so true...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Conservative Comedy: When the GOP Gets Laughs | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...view our landscape. “I think that we’ve come to expect terror and the unknown and the unprecedented. These video games stills seem absurd with the soldiers and the act of violence, but when I removed the violence the scene actually seemed much scarier,” he says. “Since 9/11, our imagination has unfortunately become increasingly vivid, for better or for worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Faculty Exhibit Art | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...rating agencies' decision - they had suddenly awakened to AIG's problems - to sharply downgrade the firm's securities. That gave AIG no time to react, no time to raise more capital, no more time to do anything else but beg for help. Because AIG is in a much scarier situation than Lehman - the insurer has assets of $1 trillion, more than 70 million customers and intimate back-and-forth dealings with many of the world's biggest and most important financial firms - Uncle Sam felt that it had no choice but to intervene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...water, peanut butter, canned beans, tuna and fruit. And ice. Mom boiled a couple dozen eggs. This ain't our first rodeo, as we say here in Texas. My family lived through Hurricane Alicia in 1983, when I was just a kid. But Ike seems bigger and a bit scarier. Maybe because I'm older and know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...pilot, and you may discover that you have a fully operable wheel in your lap and control pedals underfoot. You don't get pedals on the Eastern shuttle. The tourist is much intrigued. Could I learn to fly one of these contraptions? This line of thinking is scarier than orcas or floatplanes because it leads to seductive questions: ''Could I live in this chilly, light-struck wilderness? Could I be an Alaskan?'' Such wild surmising, which is half the fun of travel, churns dependable fantasies anywhere, in Salzburg or Ladakh. But for a U.S. citizen, the daydreams seem especially strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN ALASKA, THE PARTY IS ON A light-struck wilderness awes new visitors | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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