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...bondage brothel and a ledger recording the payoffs made to the police by a porn kingpin. The movie plays the robbery as a kind of sting, arranged by MI 5, a branch of the British secret service. Their idea was to make the crime look like a standard heist, allow the robbers to keep the loot if they could escape the investigating cops, but grab the embarrassing evidence of royal playfulness. To this end, they engage the astonishingly beautiful Martine (Saffron Burrows) to recruit the crime team - a bunch of small time crooks (led by the excellent Jason Statham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Job is Sweaty and Suspenseful | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...complex. Though Harvard College, which provides HUDS’ money, has “taken rising food costs into account,” the budget won’t be enough for the dining services to buy food imprudently. We need to work with HUDS to find compromises that allow the dining services to operate within budget while satisfying our nutritional needs and desires.Unfortunately, the strain of rising food costs is the cause of a growing divide between the student body and the dining services. But just as HUDS realizes we aren’t asking for racks of lamb...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Coop and the Case of the Missing Deliciousness | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...sixteenth off.” After his African adventure, Fleck effectively put his musical career on a three-year hiatus in order to edit the film, which will premiere at the South by Southwest music festival. Fleck claims that the whirlwind nature of his tour of Africa did not allow him to practice and internalize specific songs. “The music I learned in Africa is insidiously a part of me,” he said. Now back from his break, Fleck is currently touring with jazz pianist Chick Corea, one of his main inspirations. He shared other sources...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Béla Fleck Plays New Film, Banjo | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...bulky 3.5-lb. (1.6 kg) gadget "is not that pleasant," says Arthur Kuo, a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, who co-wrote an article on the brace that appeared in Science last month. But Donelan's device pays off in other ways. Using the same principles that allow hybrid cars to recycle energy created in braking, braces worn on both knees can generate 5 watts of electricity by harvesting the energy inherent in a walker's stride. That may not sound like much, but it's enough to charge 10 cell phones, and it's absolutely free. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Energy All Around Us | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...grassroots enthusiasm that some of Obama's more experienced Pennsylvania supporters had to step in to bring order to the campaign, holding organizational meetings in January in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to begin the process of naming delegates to an Obama slate in advance of the primary. "You could either allow that [enthusiasm] to dissipate, or allow it to go off in all these different directions where it would create counter purposes," said Pittsburgh attorney Cliff Levine, who chaired the western organizational meeting. But "by marshaling everybody together and trying to map out the wildfire of enthusiasm, that little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Primary to End All Primaries? | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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