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...assassins." For once, To and Wai have crafted a parable on the danger of liking your job too much. Tok (Lau) believes murder is an art; after a kill he gestures, hand raised like a matador. What's inside that spray of flowers he's carrying? His mini-Uzi. What does he do in the middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals. And what does he does to the hand of a rival? Stick a fork in it. "I'm way bad!" he says in English. Bending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fulltime Filmmaker | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

From the release of the first Tomb Raider in 1996, the game's star, Lara, was designed to be different. In a videogame scene filled at the time with Uzi-toting brain-dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says Tomb Raider producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...price that the Palestinians pay (for violence) has to be higher than the price Israel pays." UZI LANDAU, Israel's new hard-line Public Security Minister, on the need for tougher measures to combat Arab terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...From the release of the first Tomb Raider in 1996, the game's star, Lara, was designed to be different. In a videogame scene filled at the time with Uzi-toting brain-dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...waiting as the cold December rain fell hard and mist dimmed a streetlamp and the Christmas lights draping the eaves of the Browns' home. The shooter had pumped six 9-mm bullets into Brown's slumping body, then had walked around the cars in the driveway, aiming his semiautomatic, Uzi-like pistol closer and firing again from the other side. Eleven of the 17 shots fired hit Brown. It took all of 10 seconds. The assailant was determined to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Who Shot The Sheriff? | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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