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...Officers responded to a report of a broken screen in Thayer Hall. They secured the screen...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...finished a book read Harry Potter not once or twice but a dozen times. Parents report reading levels jumping four grades in two years. They cannot quite believe this gift, that for an entire generation of children, the most powerful entertainment experience of their lives comes not on a screen or a monitor or a disc but on a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Magic Of Harry Potter | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...weighs as much as an iPod, and with just 2 MB of memory, two hours of battery life and the old Palm OS 4.1, it can't be as quick and versatile as a full-size PDA. Fossil recommends that you stick to applications "designed for the smaller screen size." You'll have to cut it some slack for not having the latest Palm features like Wi-Fi connectivity, a built-in camera or a color screen. Still, it will free up space in your increasingly crowded pockets, and it's a guaranteed conversation starter--at least in some circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Palm You Wear On Your Wrist | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

That's all that happens in Winged Migration, the intellectually austere but technologically and aesthetically riveting documentary that has become a surprise art-house hit this spring. At the moment, it has a per-screen average just a bit south of such megamoronic offerings as The Matrix Reloaded and Bruce Almighty. And as their audiences have fallen away, its has grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goose Pimples via Geese | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

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