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...lobbyist and his somehow weirdly valiant efforts to convince the world that smoking isn't conclusively unhealthy. Mel Gibson, or more accurately, "Mel's people" (as we movie folks say), optioned the rights to it in 1994, even before it was published. Mel's people couldn't have been nicer. They announced with conviction, "This will be Mel's next movie." That was extremely pleasing to hear. And, indeed, I would hear it many, many times over the ensuing decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break into Movies in Only 12 Years | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...quality is higher. I was very much against 3D until I saw this new process and said, hey, this actually works in a way that it should work, which is it doesn?t call attention to itself, you forget that you?re watching in 3D, it?s just a nicer process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...this to make them into drama darlings. I'm trying to teach them how to be disciplined, how to focus themselves and how to achieve something. It isn't just educational rehabilitation for the prisoners, it's also about taking the public into prisons." This is one of the nicer ones. Opened in June 2004 with a capacity of 450, Bronzefield was designed specifically for women. That means brightly-painted walls, Matisse prints hanging around the place and a row of potted trees in the main hall. But no amount of magnolia yellow can cover the stale smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars of the Slammer | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...homes, tenants have been offered only an old trucking depot and a dangerous intersection at Soldiers’ Field Road, neither of which provides easy access to public transportation so people can get to work. The University was expected to make a nicer offer this September, but our much-touted Allston Campus Task Force failed to do anything of the sort...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky | Title: Who’s Got the ’View? | 12/6/2005 | See Source »

While many Harvard students were flocking to New Haven for the weekend, Clay Johnson and Vince Porter had a somewhat nicer travel destination in mind. The pair flew to Honolulu, Hawaii, to participate in the men’s ISCA/Vanguard Singlehanded National Championship. Porter and Johnson, both senior members of the Crimson co-ed sailing team, earned second- and fourth-place honors, respectively, out of 16 competitors. Johnson’s score of 81 placed him 17 points behind front-runner Andrew Campbell of Georgetown. Porter came in eight points behind his teammate with a score of 89. Johnson...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson sailors place near top of field in ISCA/Vanguard championships | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

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