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...very careful to work with first time directors. I had worries. I thought this is a really tricky piece of material, really well written, but there's a lot of traps. It could end up being jokey, which it can't be, if you're not incredibly adept. We finally met after I finished Good Night and Good Luck. I spent a seven or eight hour lunch with Tony, who I had never met before. We hung out. By the end of it, on top of thinking he could handle it, you just liked him. Somehow that makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: George Clooney | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

...some were allowed to talk on their hands-free phones. The study was designed so that traffic would periodically slow in one lane, while another lane opened up. Researchers found that cell-phone users switched to faster-moving lanes about 20% less frequently than other drivers. They were less adept at keeping up with traffic flow, and it took them 2% to 3% longer to complete the commute than drivers who weren't distracted by cell phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones Prolong Your Commute | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...guidebook to rediscovering Jesus’ teachings and, through them, God. It is in this latter capacity that the “The Scandalous Gospel” may come up short for many readers.“The Scandalous Gospel” combines fairly simple biblical interpretation with very adept explanation from the incredibly eloquent Harvard pastor. The book isn’t meant to add to the canon of interpretation, but rather to reach the readers who need it most—those who may not know Jesus in the “socialist” light in which...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jesus Teaches, But Gomes Preaches | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...right players for his system. He has Amaker’s players, including a guy (DeShawn Sims) who jumped so high on Saturday he hurt his face on the rim, but couldn’t recognize a double-team. He has Manny Harris, a guard who was incredibly adept at improvising and scoring, and, it appeared, forgetting that he wasn’t supposed to improvise.That’s why it must have killed Beilein on Saturday to see Andrew Pusar cut baseline for easy layup after easy layup—that was Gansey’s favorite move...

Author: By Harvard news agency, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: THE ROUNDTABLE: Harvard beats Michigan: So What? | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...sort of taxonomy has blossomed, appropriately called FOLKSONOMY You Work on It Why pay a professional when an amateur would do it for dramatically less money? In fields ranging from photography to the sciences, companies are taking jobs once performed by staff and CROWDSOURCING them to the enthusiastic, increasingly adept masses You Find It Wal-Mart can't afford to stock anything that won't sell in volume. But websites like MySpace or Netflix offer an endless array of obscure products, allowing users to forage successfully for Japanese ceramics or old-time bluegrass as easily as they might find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Web, Your Way | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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