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...previous multiple tips. As far back as last fall, the U.S. was hearing about a serious plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge that involved a Midwesterner. An intelligence report from early 2002 said al-Qaeda wanted to derail a train in the industrial corridor of northeast Washington, hoping to smash the cars into tanks of hazardous chemicals stored near the tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Triple Life of a Qaeda Man | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...Suddenly you notice that the lantern jaw has a weak chin, that this paragon is all too roilingly human. It's the engaging fallibility that marks Bana as more than just an element in a huge marketing campaign. Ang Lee's big green monster movie may not be a smash (it already has flies buzzing around it), but Bana looks likely to become a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Bana Is A Marvel | 6/19/2003 | See Source »

...player is much more likely to form a personal connection with a character firmly under his or her control than with a character whose movements are largely dictated by the structure of the game. Armed with these ideas and the skills to make them a reality, Windward was a smash hit at the E3 convention, and its members say it has formed legitimate connections with giants in the industry that will likely become partnerships...

Author: By Nicholas J. Reifsnyder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking on the (Virtual) Real World | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

After having drained my lifeblood into a series of final papers which did their job but brought little joy into the world, I am left with only bile. I hate having to smash my big Idea to pieces and then classify and reassemble the parts, to turn each thought into a topic sentence or its subsidiary, and to organize them in an arbitrary linear structure which undercuts the extent of their coherence. What perverse monsters we are to do this for a grade. It’s bad enough that we distort the world with notions of cause and effect...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Old Rabbits Die Hard | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...message was loud and clear. Those other networks' smash reality shows are passing fancies. What matters in the long run is our quality scripted dramas and comedies (even the ones that people aren't watching)... which made it all the more amusing when Zucker capped off his presentation with a pitch for "the most upscale reality show you can imagine." On "The Apprentice" - debuting in early 2004 from "Survivor" Producer Mark Burnett - 16 people compete to get a chance to get a job working for Donald Trump. Sixteen people, backstabbing, and climbing the corporate ladder: it's "Survivor" without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: NBC's Nervous Reality | 5/13/2003 | See Source »

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