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...right around the time Ben Stiller turned up at a Bat Mitzvah disguised as a mime that I started to yearn for the couch. But I had downloaded Starsky & Hutch to my home-office computer. And even though the picture looked great in full-screen mode on my 17in. monitor, with none of the jerkiness that sometimes plagues online video streams, I had my feet propped up on a printer, and my husband had to stand behind me to see Stiller strut his stuff. Not what I had in mind for movie night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Downloading 101 | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

EIA’s findings seem pretty solid—even Secretary of Energy (and Bush appointee) Spencer Abraham was unwilling to go to bat on this one, telling Congress in April that he did “not dispute the EIA analyses...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Out of Gas | 10/6/2004 | See Source »

...will watch other young men do on TV (execute a 360? slam dunk, eat animal entrails, punk Justin Timberlake) than with how other people see teen boys. In CBS's Clubhouse (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), 16-year-old Pete Young (Jeremy Sumpter) lands a dream after-school job: bat boy for the New York Empires baseball team. His single mom (Mare Winningham) wants him to focus on his studies, so he tells her he's spending late nights with his school's Scrabble club. But while doing an errand for a bad-seed player, he's caught with the cheater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hear It from the Boys | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...anyone who needs to approve it, such as House Masters and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), McLoughlin said. In addition, he said that the software would inform users if their request complied with College regulations and estimate the cost of a HUPD detail or Beverage Authorization Team (BAT...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Groups Get Web Support | 9/15/2004 | See Source »

...while interned in Germany. He was not coerced, but he clearly misjudged the seriousness of his action. In Britain, politicians denounced him in Parliament and columnists in print. Libraries withdrew his books. The British government investigated him for treason, and editors wouldn't touch his writings with a cricket bat. The man whose vision of Britain is now engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke of Wooster-shire | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

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