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...grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends all four shrieking to the safety of their room. It's funny, but in the present, Jackson isn't of ambiguous color, he's actually gone - and so the joke hangs in the air for an uncertain second. It's a reminder of how good it is to be able to laugh at the passage of time, because otherwise, you're crying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine: Good, Not-So-Clean Fun | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...Italian teams] were more direct in terms of goal scoring,” Nichols says. “They hit the ball out of the air a lot more. They were fast, strong, and all very skillful on an individual level...

Author: By Aparajita Tripathi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soccer Team Travels to Italy for Sightseeing, Games | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

...poetry has.” Practically, this wish causes him to write in long, flowery sentences. He opens his novel with ornate description: “Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally.” His soft rhythm and languid flow serve to uphold a hazy atmosphere throughout...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Banville Creates a Parallel Universe in ‘The Infinities’ | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...definitely learned a lot about racing in light air,” Lambert said, “And dealing with frustration and getting back into the race despite being frustrated...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winds Play Part In Regatta | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...Tiananmen Square was filled with choking whirlwinds, cars and bicycles were coated in a thin layer of wheat-colored dust, flights were delayed and on March 20 the air pollution index reached 500 - the worst level possible - due to the high level of particulates in the air. A day later, several cities in eastern China including Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou reported similarly bad air quality. Hong Kong and Taiwan also reported dangerously high levels of pollution. (See pictures of the Mongolian Cyclone dusting up Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing: Onslaught of The Mongolian Cyclone | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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