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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sense of chronological urgency already makes Angels & Demons an improvement, as a movie scenario, over The Da Vinci Code, however spectacular a publishing success that was. The Da Vinci Code sold more than 60 million copies in 40 languages, graced the New York Times best-seller list for 144 weeks, or nearly three years, and inspired parodies in both hard-core (The Da Vinci Load) and soft-core movies (The Da Vinci Coed). People picked it up and couldn't put it down, in part because it was a very bookish book: an elaborate web of church lore leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hanks! Fun and Games in Angels & Demons | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...already begun jostling for position to define, direct and take over the Paris of the future seem unified in excitement before the formidable project. They'll need to retain that team spirit for the long haul. At stake is the heady objective of turning Paris into a spectacular, environmentally friendly, sustainable city that then merges with its suburbs and beyond to transform the entire region into a giant, integrated economic engine. (See pictures of the French celebrating Bastille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's Big Plans for a Greater Paris | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...Afghan villages leveled by allied attacks and ordinary citizens allegedly killed by coalition fire. Also popular: a montage from the anti-Soviet jihad of the 1980s, part of a running effort to portray the current foreign troops as "invaders." Other discs show Taliban executions of so-called traitors and spectacular attacks against coalition forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Taliban Is Winning the Propaganda War | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...indictment on race relations at the time.” Russo, in effect, tends to direct much of the show’s energy on the hard odiousness of racism. What is most arresting about the Conservatory’s show, however, is its spectacular musical talent. Berg and Tishfield give especially stellar performances. As Joe, a dockworker on the boat, Nicholas Christopher, Jr. delivers a stunningly noteworthy performance of the musical’s leitmotif, “Ol’ Man River.” His surprisingly crisp and sonorous baritone (surprising because Christopher is of a slight...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BCT's 'Showboat' Quite a Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...start with a handful of nice balls. Nothing spectacular, but these balls are certainly worth fooling around with if you get the chance. With this many balls, no one's going to get the shaft...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Katherine A. Petti | Title: FlyBy's Guide to the Balls | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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