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...that are about the size and heft of Final Cut. The book is good, but, as it turns out for once, the movie is even better. The business will not appreciate the irony, nor is it likely to learn lessons from any of this. Final Cut makes a fine textbook and a strong caution, but Hollywood, a place of exalted and expensive vanity, has always had a tough time looking at itself in the mirror. --By Jay Cocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Watching the Deal Go Down: FINAL CUT | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...hasn't helped matters that Japan's Education Ministry?headed by one of Koizumi's more conservative appointees?last week approved a textbook that critics say whitewashes the country's imperialist past. Among other things, it downgrades the Nanjing Massacre to an "incident." China immediately labeled the book "poison" and summoned Japan's envoy to Beijing for a dressing down, while a text-message campaign urged Chinese to boycott Japanese goods. One of China's largest supermarket chains, Nonggongshang, said its 1,200 stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoldering Hatreds | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...outside for a day. There’s a whole world outside of mitosis that is passing you by. In fact, you can go out into the real world and find a natural occurrence of mitosis! I promise it’s better than whatever is in your textbook...

Author: By Brendan D.B. Hodge, | Title: Get Your Play On | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...outside for a day. There’s a whole world outside of mitosis that is passing you by. In fact, you can go out into the real world and find a natural occurrence of mitosis! I promise it’s better than whatever is in your textbook...

Author: By Brendan D.B. Hodge, | Title: Get Your Play On | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...economics on a global scale. What I really loved about this class is that you didn’t need a strong background in math or economics to take it, but students still read contemporary scholarship, not a Readers’ Digest-like summary of it in a textbook...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, ELEMENTARY | Title: Liberal Smarts | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

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