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...orange alert, the fatalistic talk about contingency plans and three days' supplies of water hinted at a message no one would tell Americans plainly: we believe a terrible thing is coming, and we will not be able to stop it. Ridge had a basically Rogersian task - getting Americans to accept a terrible eventuality that they could not prevent. So Homeland Security offered a slogan - Don't Be Afraid ... Be Ready - which seemed immediately preposterous to citizens who (having grown up on Mister Rogers) knew that being afraid is normal, reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was Not Afraid of the Dark | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...naughtiness when he returns from the dead might diminish his popularity, but he's stayed so popular I've been asked to go back and shoot some more scenes for the third film." If fans can't get enough of the old wizard, neither can McKellen, who refuses to accept that the part ends with the trilogy's final installment. He has a grand idea for the prequel: "I want to play Gandalf again, in The Hobbit. I've asked Peter Jackson if he'll produce the prequel as a huge, yearlong television series. All those different strands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wizard of the West End | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

...sure he’ll accept,” Shapiro said...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Expecations, Poet’s Return Yet to Be Realized | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

While MITES will no longer accept only African Americans, Hispanic Americans or Native Americans, race and ethnicity will still be factors in the admissions process...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Changes to Summer Program Worry Former Students | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

...singing. Take the hugely popular Wasakara, from his 2000 album Bvuma (Tolerance). To the beat of conga drums and the gentle rattle of hosho shakers, Tuku presses an aged man to admit there are things he can no longer do: "You are spent/ It is time to accept you are old." Most Zimbabweans heard an allusion to the President, then 76. A crew member at a show thought so too. He cast the spotlight on Mugabe's portrait during Wasakara and earned a trip to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing The Walls Down | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

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