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Send in the teen clichés. Alvin (voiced by Justin Long) joins the football team and wins a game; Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) gets a toilet swirlie from the jock bullies; Theodore (Jesse McCartney), fretting that his brother act is close to breakup, runs away from home and gets menaced by an eagle at the zoo. There's also a musical-talent sing-off that pits the little guys against a female trio of chipmunks, the Chipettes, laboring under the management of evil Ian Hawke (David Cross), the villain from the first movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alvin 2: The Unspeakable Squeakquel | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...security measures were unable to thwart the bomber, who blew himself up near the back of the crowd. After a loud blast, large plumes of white smoke filled the air. Some of the marchers fell to the ground, while others fled in a panic. "It was an inhuman act of terrorism," Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, told TIME. Suspicion immediately fell on the Pakistani Taliban. (See Karachi's defiant fashion week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban Targets the Shi'ites | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...Unlike trained, uniformed police who, though violent, act in predictable, measured ways, it is impossible to know what a Basiji is going to do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Preparing for a Bloody Confrontation | 12/27/2009 | See Source »

...explosives; it was also reportedly used by the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his abortive Christmas 2001 terrorism attempt. Representative King said the device was "somewhat sophisticated," that it was more than a firecracker and that "it should have been detected." Federal officials swiftly called the incident an attempted act of terrorism. President Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, ordered strengthened security on international flights. The Department of Homeland Security said it had amplified screening measures. (See how religious violence is tearing at Nigeria's fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Terrorism Suspect: The Nigeria Connection | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

...matter where we are or who we're talking to, I heard a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter say, "We have to act as if the daylight is always around...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Addendum to "Kids Who Would Be King" | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

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