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...crippled Marine, and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), daughter of the Na'vi tribal chief, weren't plausible and inviting. Like Titanic, this is a love story enveloped by catastrophe. That's why Hollywood's anxiety about the movie's supposedly limited appeal to both sexes was needless. Indeed, Avatar's closest kin among current hits may be The Blind Side, the female-skewing sports film. Both tell stories of strong women who find rootless young men and give them a purpose around which they can build their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Killorn muscled past two Eagles defensemen to inspire an all-out attempt to even the score. It was the closest Harvard would come to finding the back...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes Ice In Beanpot Consolation | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...closest match of the day, though, wasn’t West or Hill, but rather that of No. 9 freshman Alexander Ma, who came back from a two-game deficit against the Tigers’ Nikhil Seth. Winning the third and fourth games, 11-8 and 11-9, Ma seemed poised to take the whole match before Seth came back with three final hard shots to win the last game for Princeton...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Loses Undefeated Ivy Record in Split | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Could the show be a paradigm for the country's general, if not pathological, sense of social and political captivity? The closest rival Lost has in Iran is Prison Break, a TV series that had only a moderate following in the U.S. Before that, there was Jewel in the Castle, a melodrama from South Korea about a young girl working as an indentured cook in the royal kitchen of an ancient monarch who manages to free herself after a lifetime of struggle. But Lost and its mysteries appeal even more strongly to Iranians. "In Iran, people are drawn to stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...Maybe not, but what comes out of Elmendorf's office is just about the closest thing there is to holy writ in Washington these days. In a nondescript building across a freeway from the Capitol, on a floor where J. Edgar Hoover once housed the FBI's fingerprint files, the CBO has for decades been regarded as the unbiased scorekeeper in the capital's never-ending budget battles, which alone gets to judge whether legislation will add to or lighten the national debt. A bumper sticker posted on a billboard in the hallway gives you an idea of what passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Douglas Elmendorf: The Numbers Man Whom D.C. Trusts — and Loathes | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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