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...funny. Well, OK, it is - but the larger point it intends to hammer home is that not all Biblical doctrine is eminently reasonable (avid West Wing watchers will recall one or two of these lines from a famous Jed Bartlet smackdown). And though the video isn't a full barrel of laughs, it's packed with its share of wit, with both Black (as a laid-back, rotund Jesus) and Harris turning in pretty good solos. (See the Top 10 Plays and Musicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prop. 8: The Musical | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...stocks dropping more than 17% on average. Shares of Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Wachovia all fell more than 20%, largely erasing last week's financial-stock rally. Shares of oil companies fell sharply as well on Monday, as the price of crude sank to $49.28 per barrel, a decline of more than 9%. (See the Top 10 Wall Street Meltdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Recession Is Made Official — and Stocks Take a Dive | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...world’s demand for biofuel can be attributed to several factors including the European Union’s alternative energy targets, American fear of dependence on the Middle East, and the rise in the price of fuel. As fuel prices skyrocketed up to $145 a barrel this summer, biofuel became an increasingly appealing and economically viable solution to our oil addiction. But we are really addicted to oil, and what little ethanol the U.S. produces domestically (made from surplus corn that we used to donate as food aid) has not been able to cut it. In order...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Only in America | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...result - a deflationary bust - is evident everywhere. On Thursday morning crude-oil prices - as good a barometer as any for global economic activity - plunged below $50 a barrel. In July crude peaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Economy's Big Fear Becomes Real: Deflation | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Thompson’s Brattle Street creation was widely praised, receiving the American Institute of Architecture’s Twenty-five Year Award in 2003. However, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Robert D. Campbell, Jr. ’58 said that Crate & Barrel “never did a really good job of taking advantage of the power [the building...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crate & Barrel To Close | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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