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Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C., fills the ironic-teen-soap void that's been open since, well, The O.C. was canceled. Manhattan prep schooler Serena (Blake Lively) returns from a mysterious exile and shakes up Upper East Side society. Packing a sharp designer shiv, this clever saga of haves vs. have-mores proves the East Coast can be as enjoyably sudsy as the West...
TIME: When was the last time you spoke to your brother? SHAHBAZ SHARIF: [On Monday evening] he told me very clearly, "Shahbaz, I was shaken. They had a very clever plan, that I would be arrested, taken to the arrivals lounge. I told them from London that I was prepared to face any of these concocted charges against me, that I was prepared to go to prison, to go anywhere they wanted to take me in Pakistan. I don't mind that." And then they whisked him away from the lounge to the tarmac where there was a plane...
...th”-for-“s” gag appeared in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” in 1854. The past 150 years haven’t made a hackneyed joke more clever.) An e-mailed question about IvyGate’s policy has not been answered, and at time of writing the posts remain...
...rest of the year listening to a great deal of words wondering why it is we are by-and-large unhappy. While hardly the rule for every single student, discontent has become somewhat of a dogma. Exhaustion and disillusion become lifestyle fads, and many busy themselves thinking up clever new ways to prevent them...
...that the ball could fly, but Top-Flite had become so synonymous with clunky range balls that getting golfers to try the new D2s would be harder than getting a tee time at Pebble. So the marketing team came up with RFID, not to track inventory but as a clever intro: Rock-Flite Is Dead. Armed with balls stamped with these letters, Callaway approached players like John Freeman, head pro at Edgewood in Big Bend, Wis. "After shooting a 64, I was asking, 'What ball was it?'" says Freeman. "They e-mailed back and said it was a Top-Flite...