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...year-old child," says Thurman. "You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher." There was also the matter of the martial-arts training Tarantino expected his leading lady--three months removed from childbirth--to endure. "Three styles of kung fu, two styles of sword fighting"--Thurman says this through pursed lips, as if she's going to spit--"knife throwing, knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, Japanese speaking. It was literally absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tao of Uma | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...people who created these arts," she says. "They have a low center of gravity; they're compact. Then there's me. I'm like 5 ft. 11 in., all arms and legs, with a 2-ft. neck." The first time Thurman swung the 10-lb. samurai sword her character uses in Kill Bill's climactic duel, she hit herself in the head and nearly burst into tears. "At first I just lied to myself. I said, 'Obviously he sees this is going to be impossible for me, and he'll figure out a way to fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tao of Uma | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Jack McCambridge, a chair on last year’s Campus Life Committee who is also running in the elections, said that the council’s reliance on FASCS to run their elections is a double-edged sword...

Author: By Ebonie D. Hazle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glitch Disrupts Council Vote | 9/23/2003 | See Source »

Security forces came across a different kind of find on the body of Yousif Salih Fahad al-Ayeeri, an al-Qaeda strategist and fund raiser known as Swift Sword, who was shot as he fled a patrol on May 31. He was carrying a letter with a signature that the Saudis authenticated as Osama bin Laden's. An al-Qaeda activist in detention told the Saudis he took the letter into Saudi Arabia in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 9: SAUDI ARABIA: Inside the Kingdom | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...more about al-Qaeda members they have captured or killed. These officials say their Saudi counterparts have not seemed interested in setting up an analytical unit to pore over the suspects' financial records, computer hard drives, emails, phone records and other data. "Their attitude has been, 'Swift Sword is dead, so what use are his records?'" says a U.S. official. "Everybody's been looking for bullets and bombs, but nobody's paid any attention to the paper." The Americans hope to use the task force to convince the Saudis of the value of what the FBI inelegantly calls link analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 9: SAUDI ARABIA: Inside the Kingdom | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

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