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...Nearly eighteen months ago, on the campus of Princeton University, the women’s basketball team’s prized recruit was having second thoughts.“A little bit into my first semester, I realized I was unhappy,” recalls Emma Markley, Harvard freshman and former Princeton student. “Maybe it was the first time going to college, being away from home, but it’s something that a lot of people go through. I can’t tell you why it was, but I knew that I wanted to come...
...only a few fleeting moments when “Here’s to Being Here” shows any promise, and they quickly fade away when he returns to his standard, unsuccessful formula of poorly channeling better musicians. Hopefully Collett will soon be making use of the other eighteen members of Broken Social Scene. Maybe then he’ll create something novel...
...Eighteen months ago, the digital-art powerhouse launched its first overseas studio in Singapore. The 170 employees come from 33 nations, and together they make sure that Luke Skywalker's animated cloak swings naturally in the TV series Clone Wars and that Jackie Chan slides effortlessly down the Eiffel Tower in Rush Hour 3. Like their colleagues back at Lucasfilm's San Francisco headquarters, the Singapore crew members work in jeans and decorate their cubicles with their favorite Star Wars action figures. But while years of experience and Yoda-level technical skill are prerequisites for joining Lucasfilm's U.S. team...
...shelters. He hoped the design of the rough-and-ready structures would serve as models for local villagers, encouraging them to give up their attachment to concrete - seen as a symbol of modernity and affluence - and return to the kinds of building materials used throughout the archipelago for centuries. Eighteen months later, the shelters are still occupied...
...precious ally for U.S. President George W. Bush) is teetering on the edge of irrelevance. Indeed, it increasingly appears that his multi-billion dollar fortune, which includes ownership of the three biggest private TV channels and numerous publishing holdings, are all that keep him at the center of debate. Eighteen months after narrowly losing his re-election bid to the more conventional Romano Prodi, Berlusconi has not been able to rally enough support among a divided opposition to knock an equally weak and fractured center-left from power...