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...movie, a postwestern in the style of Robert Altman's 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is elegiac in tone, for both the soon-to-be-late Jesse James and the genre he occupies. The silky cloud of steam from a train the boys are to rob instantly locates the movie in the mists of legend. Like Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dominik's movie says, "Print the legend," but adds, see that the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...professionals. "They had all these university graduates who had no clue how to hold meetings or run spreadsheets or even how to dress at an office," he says. So he formulated a deceptively simple-sounding plan: his Education for Employment Foundation would get regional companies to guarantee jobs, then train candidates for the specific tasks needed. Founded in 2002, the group has launched programs in Gaza, Jordan and Morocco over the past year and has placed about 85% of its 160 graduates thus far in full-time posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gainful Employment | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Upon returning from Seattle, Kolbe met Peggy Ewald, the coach of a local club team, at the YMCA while training one day. Ewald had never coached an athlete with a disability before but took an immediate interest in Kolbe and invited her to train with the club...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Water, Harvard's Unexpected Star Thrives | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Though a Crimson swimmer and busy college student, Kolbe has maintained a relationship with home coach Ewald and continues to train for international competition, often traveling to an exotic location when the Harvard team “is just heading down to Columbia,” Hart noted...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Water, Harvard's Unexpected Star Thrives | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...intend to study war as a social, political, and cultural phenomenon, Harvard can ably meet your needs. But if you’re still curious about how best to crush the infidels, then take the T to MIT, or better yet, the train to West Point...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg and Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Blown out of Proportion | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

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