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Jackson's trilogy ended on a triumphant note: Return of the King won 11 Oscars and became one of only two films (the other is Titanic) to earn more than $1 billion in theaters. The Matrix, fairly or not, is seen as a terrific film followed by two vagrantly entertaining afterthoughts (Reloaded and Revolutions). The Ultimate Matrix is the Wachowskis' grand play to establish the three films as one fabulous story. They don't pull it off, but there are goodies galore in this package...
Salad bars will be welcoming back an old friend today, as tomatoes make a triumphant return to College dining halls...
...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy 's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that...
...product of the grassroots backlash against the corruption and cronyism created by Yasser Arafat in his reliance on the politics of patronage to run the Palestinian Authority. It was the first intifadah, which raged from 1987 to 1991, that did more than anything else to ensure Arafat's triumphant return to the West Bank under the Oslo agreements, but the local leadership of Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, who had risked and sacrificed the most to wage that struggle, were largely overlooked when Arafat staffed the new administration with cronies from Tunis, who in many cases conspicuously used...
...leave in the next four months. European allies who backed the war despite overwhelming domestic opposition suffered a major credibility blow when the weapons of mass destruction cited as the reason for invading failed to materialize. Even more damaging was the fact that the occupation, far from a triumphant liberation celebrated by most Iraqis, has turned into a bitter and bloody war of insurgency and counterinsurgency...