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Even that goal will be at risk if the security situation does not improve. In a guerrilla war, the sort of heavy-duty offensive launched last week can quickly backfire. "We risk looking really stupid if we say that we're going to get really tough but we can't, and if those measures only push those Iraqis sitting on the fence over to the other side," says former Marine Lieut. Colonel Dale Davis, who served in the Middle East and North Africa. "You don't win hearts and minds by blowing up somebody's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If At First You Don't Succeed... | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...without taking into account the acting, especially Krol's combination of innocence and worldliness and Marozsan's blend of yielding and manipulation. The film is high romance, rather like those American movies of the 1940s--people snatching at happiness in a world aflame. We don't make them anymore--stupid us--but we ought to be glad someone does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two Charming Foreigners | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

There are plenty of other networking sites, such as Ryze.com Tribe.net and Meetup.com But only Friendster is so hot that it has inspired its own parody sites, including Introvertster, which bills itself as "an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harassing you online." On Friendster itself, you'll find lots of "fakesters"--people who post false profiles of celebrities or pose as cartoon characters or even their pets. To keep things real, Abrams is diligently trying to purge the site of the fakes. He's also working on adding new features such as instant messaging between members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 100,000 Friends | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...have to come up with it independently, as a form of spontaneous sleight-of-hand marketing. "[The phrase] 'graphic novel' was kind of accidental," Eisner said. While pitching the book to an important trade-book editor in New York, says Eisner, "a little voice inside me said, 'Hey stupid, don't tell him it?s a comic or he'll hang up on you.' So I said, 'It's a graphic novel.'" Though that particular editor wasn't swayed by the semantics, dismissing the book as "comics," a small publisher eventually took the project and put the phrase "A Graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...pressure meant that I had to be really careful with my information: my details, the models that I built; I wanted there to be no stupid mistakes, none that could be avoided,” Macaulay said. “Here I am, a Westerner, trying to explain Islamic architecture at a time when Islamic things are on our mind...

Author: By Jackeline Montalvo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deconstructing the Mosque | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

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