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...friend standing outside the entrance. “The club owners closed the shutters behind us and we were just standing there looking stupid and exposed,” he said.While they stood outside in the street, between 10 and 15 people dodged past them, running through the alley that led to the club. “It seemed like something was after them,” Singh said.The people screamed at Singh and his friend to leave. “They were like ‘Get out of here’ in Hindi,” he said...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergraduate Witnesses Mumbai Attacks | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...seemed to have a diviner's rod that led him toward powerful men and big stories. In 1931, on vacation in Munich, he stumbled onto a street speech by a local spellbinder: Adolf Hitler, two years before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed one of the sharpest, coolest reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alistair Cooke: PBS's Rock Star | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...feel. In the glitter of her huge doe eyes we recognize the docility of a character who, at first, is neither radical nor rebel. When Carol Dexter (Amy Ryan), a prostitute imprisoned in the same mental asylum, tells Christine, “I had two abortions by back-alley doctors. I didn’t have a choice to fight for my kids...don’t stop,” we see the beginnings of determination working in the very way Jolie holds herself. It’s a good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid...

Author: By Naomi C. Funabashi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Changeling' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Obama set up a row of false choices to knock down like so many bowling pins - though this time his arm was better than it was back at the Altoona bowling alley earlier this year. "We don't need bigger government or smaller government," he said. "We need a better government." On taxes: "The choice in this election isn't between tax cuts and no tax cuts," it's whether we reward wealth or work. On education, the choice isn't more money or more reform - "our schools need both." And on the war, the choice isn't isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Close the Deal in Pittsburgh | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...bats. The mascara-streaked faces and torn clothes are reminiscent of MJ’s “Thriller,” except these girls are a bit livelier. The emotional, “love bi-polar” brides are absolutely terrifying as they chase Alexander down an alley. I’m surprised the little boy didn’t start to cry. But please note, ladies: I do think that Katy Perry steals her boy back with her crazy dance moves. She’s particularly stellar when she is surrounded by her crazy brides. However, it?...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Katy Perry | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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