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...EWAN MCGREGOR. The plot revolves around an old man (Albert Finney) who tells tall tales about himself as a younger man (that would be McGregor), but little else is clear. Is it a fairy tale? "I always like a mixture of all of those elements--funny, sad, real, unreal, all together," says Burton. "I find that's the most accurate description of how I feel every day." Fair enough. So is it a comedy? "I prefer not to say, just in case it's not funny. Then you can say it's a drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 2003 | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

...what really makes the Harry Potter series great is its dual nature. It's a fantasy wrapped around a nightmare, an unreal, escapist fiction with an icy core of emotional pain that is very real. In Phoenix, Rowling even kills off a major character, one of the people Harry needs most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Black Magic | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...there was Herrmann, and there was Pauly, and here were the Princeton fans on their feet. And despite the mists and their certainty, the difference between the seemingly inevitable and the cinematically unreal was represented by a couple of miles per hour, an inch or two, a millisecond’s worth of delay jumping on strike three, and in all of this was the possibility and promise of baseball...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Of Moments, Possibilities And Promise | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...Jake McKenna played unreal,” tri-captain and defenseman Andrew Crocco said. “He made some great, great plays that saved what could’ve been some goals in the second half. He’s the reason we shut them out in the second half...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Dominates Colgate on the Road | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...against weak competition, it has been winning handily. The Big Red is the only team returning a First Team All-Ivy pitcher—junior Sarah Sterman—and two First Team All-Ivy hitters—sophomore Lauren May and junior Kate Varde. Varde is hitting an unreal .491 to start the season and May is batting .366. The Big Red’s biggest weakness last season was getting pitching beyond Sterman, but Cornell may have filled that hole with Nevada freshman Whitney Smith, who is 4-1 with a 2.03 ERA in her rookie campaign...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Ivy Preview | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

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