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...Latin America; and one, the 1948 Nosotros los pobres...! (We the Poor) is the biggest hit in Mexican film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped out the window (in Dicen que soy mujeriego -They Call Me a Ladies' Man). The good-hearted heroes he played fought, they cried and, always, they sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...just didn’t go our way.”“Princeton is a very disciplined team,” he added. “We knew that going in—we knew what they were going to do. For us, it was hard to crack their defense and get things generated.”Both squads boasted similar strategies coming into the game: slow the ball down, and go for quality shots rather than quantity. Princeton did exactly that, taking its time to net its first goal. The match remained even until 4:27 left...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lacrosse Struggles to Score | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...teen comedies that TV stars are always offered, he took small roles in Thank You for Smoking and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and then the lead in In the Land of Women. He wants to prove himself movieworthy, within limits. "I'm not going to rob banks and smoke crack to prove how not-television I am," he says. He's just going to smoke cigarettes, write soft porn and make out with moms and their daughters. Baby steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Adorkable | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its lite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lexicon: Clean-skin terrorist | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

MAGNUM P.I.'S FERRARI 308 AND THE A-TEAM'S GMC VAN Their glory days as mustache-delivery system and crack-commando conveyance behind them, these '80s alpha sleds now gather dust on the Universal Studios back lot, posing for tourist photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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