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...tumble Australian cattle drover who works for no man but himself and shirks responsibility. Jackman’s drover is such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with a young, half-Aboriginal, half-white boy named Nullah (Brandon Walters), Lady Ashley puts together a ragtag team to drive a thousand cattle from her ranch to the city of Darwin to outmaneuver King Carney.Sound like fun? Well, there’s even more to this nearly three-hour-long movie. Obviously Drover and Lady Ashley fall in love and then...

Author: By Samuel E. Chalsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Australia | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...that there are some 10,000 applications available at the App Store, it makes it much harder for new apps to be discovered, some developers say. Brandon Bogle, an engineer and a co-founder of the Blimp Pilots - an ad hoc group of iPhone-app creators, who are otherwise employed as game developers - said its hit app Koi Pond, which sold 600,000 copies, was simply in the right place at the right time. "We were lucky enough to get in on day one, when people could find us. There are so many good apps for the iPhone, the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Best-Selling iPhone App? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...need to improve. We still have some holes, but I was very happy with the guys who stepped up to fill in.”NO. 5 MISSOURI 43, HARVARD 7Freshman Walter Peppelman (149) improved to 6-2 with a 4-0 decision over the Tigers’ Brandon West, and No. 4 Caputo (184) stayed perfect with a major decision, but the rest of the Crimson lineup faltered in the evening session.Two forfeits and a technical fall by rookie Johnny Motley left Harvard with a 17-0 deficit and gave Missouri (7-0) ample breathing room. The Tigers relied...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson No Match for Ranked Opponents | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...drover (Hugh Jackman) with whom she falls into that mutual dislike which, in movies like Australia, is always True Love's necessary precursor. They begin sparking on the adventurous cattle drive that is required to save the old homestead from their rich and avaricious neighbors. She also inherits Nullah (Brandon Walters), an adorable child of mixed white and aboriginal blood, who needs her love but also needs the mystical wisdom of his grandfather (David Gulpilil), a sort of shaman, who stands about the outback, often on one leg, spouting gnomic wisdom (he has the ability to "sing" people he takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Epic Romance Down Under | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...biological oceanography and has served since the 1980s on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore ’69 last year. Former HoCo co-chair and self-proclaimed Pforzheimer “House elf” Brandon P. Geller ’08 called Jim McCarthy a “gentleman explorer” who possesses knowledge that one wouldn’t typically expect of an academic. “He hasn’t been to a mechanic since 1976—he?...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfoho House Masters To Leave | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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