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...Taipei. As he gives a group of foreign journalists a briefing on Iwakuni, Satoru Shoji, an MSDF captain with the blunt build and cauliflower ears of a rugby player, points toward the area west of Japan on a map and says, "This is the area we have to watch out for." There isn't any doubt about which countries he's referring to: North Korea and China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Stealthy Military | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...like a cat when someone rang. More than once on my visits in April, and again last August, Kwame repeated an adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: there is no such thing as African time. "There is no store in the world that sells an African watch or an African clock. We all use the same clock," he told me. "And yet Africans use African time as an excuse. We have to be serious." Overhead, a fan chopped through the humidity. "According to my age," said Kwame as I was leaving at the end of that first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight's Family | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...want to be a producer!” sings Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks’s classic “The Producers,” “And see my name...in lights!” For everyone watching the musical, and even for Bloom himself, this is almost pure fantasy. For Christopher L. Moore ’86, this is everyday life.Moore has quite a list of production credits. After his career took off with “Good Will Hunting” he went on to produce “Reindeer Games?...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Producer a Success | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...first glance, “The Lives of Others” is just another “1984”-aping, “Big Brother is watching,” dystopian storyline. After all, the film is set in East Germany in 1984, before the fall of the Berlin Wall—a time when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) kept a strict control on its citizens. However, first-time director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck enhances that common storyline, making raw human relationships the central component of the drama, rather than the history of political events or theory...

Author: By Ada Pema, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Lives of Others | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...repeating. I didn’t know Satan had an infinitely long string of decimals for his sign! Good for Satan! Soon, our hero is linking everything (Hiroshima, his birthday, things he sees at the park) to the number. Ugh, I can’t describe this trailer. Just watch it and prepare to laugh at Jim Carrey for the first time since “The Mask.” Grindhouse Future Uncertain There’s only so much of Quentin Tarantino’s bullshit that I can put up with. Look—I loved...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trailer Roundup, Round Six | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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