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...punch anyone she doesn't like. In the first scene, we see her fully naked in bed--with a married cop--a prelude to her driving drunk, hitting a pedestrian and getting an intervention from a genuine, albeit tobacco-chewing angel. (By the second episode, she's trying to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiheroine Chic | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...crowd had come for one thing, though, and that was Harry and the Potters. The brothers’ act featured a lot of call and response, and the crowd enthusiastically jumped and shook along to the beat. The first step in planning the event, Jillson said, “was to secure Harry and the Potters...we secured them even before we secured the venue...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Children, Witches Invade Harvard Square For Potter’s Finale | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

...Yuan described how he had refused to allow his head to be clean-shaven, the mid-June incident that precipitated the beating. She explains: "He didn't mind having it cut short but a totally shaved head is a sign of a criminal. 'I am not a criminal, I am a Chinese worker,' he told them." She said that some six or seven other convicts then jumped him and beat him. He was pushed to the ground, his hands manacled behind his back, and held down while his head was shaved. When Yuan made her monthly visit on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Olympic Spring for Dissidents | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

Neither Dick nor Lovitz returned calls for comment on this story, but Masada confirmed Lovitz's version of events. As much as the fight itself, the pleased reaction of many to Dick's thumping (gossip site Gawker's headline: "Andy Dick Gets the Beat-Down We've All Craved") reveals what a harsh business comedy really is. Dick, whose public displays of weirdness have included licking other celebrities' faces, is a comic other comics love to hate. "Andy doesn't really care for anybody except Andy," Masada says. "If he has to get a laugh at the expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Comedians Attack | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...might sound iffy--decisions made with no one in charge--but Dodge & Cox has the track record to show that peer review works. The firm's three mainstay funds--Stock, Income and Balanced--all beat more than 95% of similarly invested funds over the past 10 years, according to investment tracker Morningstar. The International Stock fund has sported a similar track record over its shorter lifetime and is one of the 10 hottest-selling retail funds in any category; over the past 18 months, assets have more than tripled, to $45 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cult of Committee | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

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