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...digital camera for Clerks II, the sequel to his 1994 debut hit, but his director of photography didn't feel comfortable with the process. "A lot of directors and directors of photography are resistant to put down what they're familiar with," Smith says. Besides the shock of the new, there's the love of the old. "Most people in film have a great affection for film stock, for the medium. And they feel that moving in a digital direction is kind of leaving their history behind. It's more sentimental than anything else...
...After an initial period of shock, complete paralysis gripped policymakers-and for an agonizingly long period the economy contracted. The initial policy reflex to raise interest rates, curb investment and dampen consumption rendered a dire situation worse, just as similar Hooverite measures had once done in the U.S. In the late 1990s, with social and political upheaval at hand, Japan was finally jolted into action. To quell a threatening run on the banks, the government declared that it would guarantee every deposit in the country, and injected trillions of yen into the financial system. Still the economy failed to respond...
...made a comeback in the third game, recovering from its shock long enough to take a hard-fought frame from the Crimson...
...During Milosevic's 12-year rule in Serbia, I had often seen pictures of him in newspapers and on television. I even saw him two or three times in person, from afar, during his rare public appearances. But it was still something of a shock to meet him face to face-this man who shaped so much of my life as a journalist as well as the lives of thousands of others in my homeland. He was always a reclusive guy who seldom gave interviews...
This week, Hardvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) started promoting a new website and a new look for the group’s programming, which organizers hope will shock and seduce undergraduates into tuning in. The site includes a steamy music video, the latest of its reality dating show, “Harvard Hookup,” as well as sneak shots of a male undergraduate urinating on an unaware man posing by the John Harvard statue. “We’re going to bust out of the scene in a way that makes H-Bomb look tame...