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...guessing that writer's block is not one of your problems. When I started writing, I had a newborn baby and then I very quickly had his brother and sister. I didn't have time for writer's block. I wrote every few minutes that the kids were napping or at nursery school or watching Barney on television. Because of that, I learned how to really sit down quickly and focus when I needed to. I've always sort of believed that writer's block is a luxury for people who have time on their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Jodi Picoult | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...post, as freshman Colin Moore and sophomore Pier Olivier-Michaud made a few timely clears before the Crimson finally killed the penalty.“Our penalty killers did a great job,” Donato said. “Our forwards and defensemen really worked [to block shots], and Ryan Carroll was strong on the penalty kill as well. If you give them those type of opportunities, more often than not you’re going to regret it. We dodged a bullet, but hopefully we learned our lesson.”As the seconds ticked away, the Crimson...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sneaks Past Quinnipiac | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...most famous scenes—a heart-stopping car chase in which protagonist Jimmy Doyle (played by that year’s Best Actor Gene Hackman) rockets through Brooklyn traffic tailing a criminal who has hijacked the West End’s elevated train. Lacking the funds to block off the street or film the chase on a closed set, Friedkin had simply sat in the passenger’s seat with his camera pointed forward and taunted the driver until he tripled the speed limit. “We went 26 blocks at 90 miles an hour with...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Friedkin Makes the 'Connection' | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...supposed to look like. In the latest video from his Auto-Tune drenched album “808s and Heartbreak,” Kanye plays the poor-little-rich-rapper card while simultaneously re-enacting his latest acid trip. The video opens with West in sunglasses and a color-block sweater—think Will Smith on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”—against a dark background which unexpectedly starbursts into sensory-overload. Wildly colorful images are digitized and distorted, stuttering choppily from frame to pixilated frame. Weak-stomached watchers beware...

Author: By Arhana Chattopadhyay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Kanye West | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...just as the Russian winter was finally starting to bite, Gilani Shepiyev, the former deputy mayor of Grozny in Chechnya, was returning to his home in western Moscow. Shepiyev did not make it. He was found less than a foot away from the wood-paneled door to his apartment block. Blood from three gunshot wounds stained the dirty snow on the pavement; the weapon, a Baikal pistol, lay discarded next to him. Typical signs of a contract killing. Shepiyev had survived one assassination attempt in Grozny in 2006. This time he was not so lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Moscow's Recent Murder Spree? | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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