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...that Jäätteenmäki used secret documents to claim that then Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when the ice pack on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 3/7/2004 | See Source »

...first time in a long while, the team is healthy. Since returning two forwards and two blueliners who had been sidelined with lingering injuries, the Crimson is no longer pulling a forward back to strengthen a defensive corps stretched dangerously thin...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson, Catamounts Open Playoffs Tonight | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Happening | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

This makes for one of the most realistic dreams to hit screens since—well, since the respective last projects of Kaufman and Gondry, neither of whom has shied in the past from experimental ways to represent the subconscious. It also puts the two thin men with tousled hair in the unenviable position of having to lead a group of eager college journalists through their dense, dark cinematic fantasy in the early afternoon...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaufman, Gondry Give Pieces of ‘Mind’ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...brains behind the glory of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Where his previous solo outings have been difficult, lo-fi affairs greeted with lukewarm receptions, Shadows is a glorious, epic album by an artist at the peak of his powers. Frusciante’s voice, distinctively thin and with a soulful, lustrous falsetto, is finally strong enough to carry the weight of his songwriting talent, which has never been greater...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

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