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...These young people have proved that we old veterans can now relax, knowing that the task of defending America is in good hands. I suspect the selection was a very difficult one, as so many newsmakers, good and bad, were in contention. You made a spectacular choice! Richard Brown U.S. Army (ret.) Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

While Gibson was solid only for parts of the game, Fields was consistently solid throughout and was occasionally spectacular in the third period amidst sustained Northeastern pressure...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Danis Withstands Flurry of Shots To Down M. Hockey | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...allowed the party to keep its fragile coalition intact and to forge the most stable non-Congress government in India's history. The BJP has pushed through important reforms that have opened large parts of the Indian economy to private competition and foreign investment. The result has been a spectacular burst of economic growth; last year, the economy grew by more than 7%. Vajpayee's recent trip to Pakistan has also reconfirmed a feeling among many Indian Muslims that their Prime Minister is not a bigot. In Lucknow, Muslims say that they believe Vajpayee's sensitivity to their concerns stretches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafting a New Look | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...almost any measure, it was a spectacular week both in Pasadena, where the rover was birthed, and at Gusev Crater, Mars, where it now finds itself. NASA has been in need of redemption since the explosion of the shuttle Columbia last winter, and Spirit--to say nothing of its sister ship, Opportunity, heading for its own Martian touchdown at the end of the month--is it. The space agency's website recorded 1.45 billion hits in just over five days last week. The White House, perhaps sensing an election-year winner, announced that the President would soon deliver a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Return to Mars | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...dumped by the network, and released to theaters as a movie: Mulholland Dr. ABC's rejection of the David Lynch pilot proved to be Watts' promotion from the back row. Playing a starstruck, recklessly curious blond, she led viewers into thinking they could trust her, then pulled a spectacular double cross. That was the flash moment, at the film's nightmare climax, that revealed the actress's cunning intelligence, her subversive allure. Watts could even seduce viewers into thinking she wasn't seductive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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