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...performing, and he also approaches each role as a chance to design his own curriculum and make up for his lost higher education. To play Master and Commander's Jack Aubrey, he spent months learning the violin and studying the linguistic origins of his character's accent. "But the vast majority of it is reading," he says, guiding me to a sagging bookcase. "You've got Sailing for Dummies ..." He laughs, but there it is, next to several dozen more sophisticated volumes on naval history, one of which--Nelson: Love & Fame, by Edgar Vincent--is almost in tatters. Admiral Nelson...
...existed well before its lead singer became a household name. (Crowe and guitarist Dean Cochran have been playing together since their teens.) Nevertheless, the six-man group, essentially a very good bar band, has become an easy target and now exists almost in spite of Crowe's fame. "The vast majority of people who talk about us have never even heard us," says TOFOG drummer Dave Kelly. "'Russell Crowe's band? I heard they suck.' It's frustrating. But Russell's always been in the band. We can't imagine it any other...
...happened to be hunting for them at Amazon.com The No. 1 online bookseller just added an astonishingly clever feature called "Search Inside the Book," which turns the site into the Google of literature. Every page of some 120,000 in-print titles has been scanned into a vast computer database and can be accessed as text. This doesn't mean you'll be reading your favorite best sellers on Amazon for free; there are limits on how many pages you can browse in a single book. But it does mean you can do the kind of comprehensive search that most...
...careers of the lynchers. The most poignant of its gallery of portraits is of anguished lawyer William Smith, whose black, lowlife client was Frank's chief accuser but who, Smith decided, was probably the murderer. If, in its exhaustive thoroughness, Oney's narrative meanders, it does so like a vast river: cumulatively it moves with a steady, somber power. --By Christopher Porterfield
...paid to worry about this stuff." In October, Amit Yoran, a former vice president of the Internet security firm Symantec, became head of the NCSD, which will attempt to seek and destroy vulnerabilities in cyberspace, issue warnings in real time and foster communication with the vast private sector, which owns 85% of the infrastructure...