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...Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game from the start. There is Renoir's filmed reminiscence of the movie and his own wartime exploits, as well as a fond essay by Von Stroheim on this superb director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Classy DVD's From the Criterion Collection | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...Israeli intelligence official, the Pentagon in 2002 offered to supply Israel with bunker-buster bombs capable of punching deep into an enemy's underground defenses, but Israel's air force chief, Lieut. General Dan Halutz, rejected Washington's offer, noting that his country had its own superb weaponry, thank you very much. Four years later, Halutz is now Israel's chief of staff in charge of this summer's air, sea and land strikes against Lebanon. Early on in the monthlong conflict, Israeli intelligence determined that most of Hizballah's rockets were being fired from launchers in 38 bunkers burrowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel and the Bombs | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...starts with the conflicts of interest at major investment banks, who would rate company’s stocks favorably in order to win their investment banking business. Carefully reconstructing how Spitzer and his team discovered the crimes that would make them famous, Masters relates each case in superb detail and with a novelist's pacing and development. Her narrative approach allows the reader to be constantly caught up in the suspense as Spitzer and his team break open case after case...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Masters Delivers in Spitzer Biography | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...capable of punching deep into the enemy's underground defenses. Israel's air force chief at the time, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, - who, as Chief of Staff, is currently commanding Israel's air, sea and land strikes in Lebanon - rejected Washington's offer, claiming that Israel had its own superb weapons. But with the "bunker-busters", says a senior Tel Aviv intelligence source, Israel could have knocked out most of Hizballah's rocket-launchers and possibly brought the war to an early close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Israel's Hubris | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...circumstances like these, your elders and betters usually advise you to get a hobby. About a year ago, I picked one: cooking. At the TIME house, photographer Franco Pagetti and I take turns making dinner. He tends to craft simple, but superb, comfort food. I prefer exotic, complicated recipes that take hours to make - the better to while away the time. The cooking bit is easy enough, but shopping for ingredients can be life-threatening. And not just for foreigners: markets are a favorite target of suicide bombers, and hundreds of Iraqis have been killed while buying groceries and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sane in the Most Dangerous Place on Earth | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

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