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...weeks leading up to his son's bar mitzvah, Larry is subject to a catalog of social crimes, small and large. His wife Judy (Sari Lennick) has become close with family friend Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed); she wants Sy to move in and Larry to stay at the Jolly Roger. Larry and Judith's son (Aaron Wolff) is slumming through Hebrew school and harangues Dad to adjust the rooftop TV aerial so F Troop can come in clearly. Their daughter (Jessica McManus) thinks only getting a nose job and washing her hair, which she can't do nearly enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...have identified themselves as the forgotten casualties of the H1N1 swine-flu epidemic and asked Washington for financial help - the Agriculture Department announced last week a $30 million purchase of surplus pork. That brings the federal total of pork purchases for fiscal 2009 to about $150 million, or close to $100 million more than last year's figure for the same period. During a Sept. 10 morning press conference, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack also said he would work with fellow Cabinet secretaries in the Defense, Justice and Education departments to encourage pork purchases on military bases, in prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork Gets a Swine Flu Bailout | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...dragon drop programming piece" -- a fanciful typo that should have read, "drag and drop." Needless to say, Malan got a kick out of the typo and breathed a bit of fire back at The Crimson. After the jump, see video clip of his admittedly witty put-down from the close of lecture the day the article appeared in the paper...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: Mocking CS50 Czar Burns Crimson | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...spring. The unexpected additional fall in the endowment will lead to a 6.7 percent decrease in endowment payout this year and another 13 percent in fiscal year 2011. The payout will then remain at this level for the next few years, according to Levin’s statement. To close a projected $150 million annual budget deficit from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2014, Yale unveiled a series of budget-slashing measures similar to those that Harvard has announced over the past year, running the gamut from construction slowdowns to reductions in faculty hiring to trimming travel, entertainment...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale’s Endowment Faces 30 Percent Loss | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...result this time is different. You’ll recognize the Arriaga style from his previous films “Babel,” “21 Grams,” and “Amores Perros,” all directed by Arriaga’s close collaborator Alejandro González Iñárritu. Each concerns a group of strangers connected by life-shattering catastrophe, their fragmented lives eventually drawn together under one sweeping narrative. While Arriaga’s films have always impressed, Iñárritu’s direction set them...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Burning Plain | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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