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...Earlier this week, the town decided to release 70 of the roughly 100 dolphins from the previous week's catch. But Taiji fishermen aren't the only ones bowing to international pressure. Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) chairman Tom Yoda announced on Sept. 16 that the festival will screen the film, after previously rejecting it for TIFF's official selection (the festival starts next month). Having come under fire for initially rejecting the documentary, Yoda said the reasons for rejecting or accepting films aren't generally discussed, as the festival receives more than 700 entries each year. No film festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Gets Its First Chance to See The Cove | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

With that, Bernstein became an in-demand speaker, an industry wise man (one writer likened him to Yoda) and the foremost interpreter of the quantitative approach that came to dominate Wall Street. But he was never doctrinaire. When I sought his blessing for a book on the fall of the market philosophy whose rise he had sketched in Capital Ideas, he was enthusiastic--and even contributed a blurb for the back cover. When he died on June 5 at age 90, he was working on another book about risk. When that was done, he planned to finally get to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peter L. Bernstein | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...Mindflex. But it does have Star Wars branding, which possesses a magical retail power all its own. The toy features 15 levels of training: increasingly difficult challenges involving how high to raise the ball and how long to hold it steady before changing its height. Along the way, Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi offer words of encouragement as hopefuls try to attain Jedi Master status. May your limited discretionary-spending power be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind-Control Toys: The Force Is with You | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...plan on buying tons of green paint and replacing flesh-colored officials such as [University President] Drew G. Faust with greener individuals such as Yoda,” Petri stated...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Classics Concentrators Espouse Outlandish Ideas | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...disappointing as the summer movie it follows. If you think of it as a kid-oriented spin-off product--well, it still suffers from characters with all the vibrancy and pizazz of a PowerPoint marketing plan. But a successful marketing plan, since the vivid CGI (and lots of Yoda) will draw the younglings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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