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...teammate Melissa Metulich’s shot on goal. Dartmouth tallied another score in the 83rd minute to seal the 3-1 victory when Junior Monica Martin de Bustamente blasted a loose-ball in the box over Mann’s head. “The ground was slick, so we needed to follow up every shot on both attack and defense,” Walsh said. The Crimson will return to action for the final time in a home game on Saturday against Columbia, who currently sits on top in the Ivy League standings. The contest also marks...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Green Veterans Get Best Of Walsh | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...James would ask for a third take, and the A.D. [assistant director] would be like, 'What do you think you are - Kubrick?'" Somehow, though, these two kids from an Australian film school, working on their first feature, got it done, and matched the ingenuity of the plot with a slick, sick visual style. (The film's green pallor suggests that Wan, an ethnic Chinese born in Malaysia, had been watching a few of the Hong Kong dramas shot by Christopher Doyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...latest hit “Let Me Talk To You / My Love (feat. T.I.)” perpetuates his newfound suaveness, albeit in classic black-and-white fashion; as cameras roll, Timberlake—in a trendy blazer or vest-and-tie outfit—shows off his slick moves. The caliber of the cinematography immediately catches the viewer’s eye, as flashing bars of light signal the video’s opening and the noir-ish palette contrast is cleverly manipulated by rapid switches between black and white backgrounds in the dance scenes. Yet it becomes...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Kan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: Justin Timberlake | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Yellow River Runs Red | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration, admitted the Songhua had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Yellow River Runs Red | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

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