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...this environment, Vasella had something to prove. His family ties to Moret had provoked dark mutterings of nepotism, especially in light of his rapid rise. But that was unfair, says SG Cowen analyst Peter Laing. "To anyone who followed the company at the time, Dan was the live wire. He had the most international outlook, and there really wasn't anyone at Ciba to challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Lord | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...handful of juniors, the impetus will be on the team’s younger players to provide valuable sparks off the bench.Along with returning sophomores Lin, Pat Magnarelli, and Doug Miller, some of the team’s newest faces will provide additional firepower and energy off the bench.Sophomore Dan McGeary, a recent transfer from New Hampshire (UNH), and freshman T.J. Carey are two viable guard options that Amaker will look to use as relief off the bench for junior starters Andrew Pusar and Drew Housman. McGeary, who averaged 26.3 minutes per game with the Wildcats, will bring some much...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '07: Reserve Bank | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...surreal exposition of the play is the same as that of the film: One night in 1988, a friendless high school student named Donnie (Dan McCabe) sees a man-sized rabbit with a horrifying mask, calling himself Frank. Frank (Perry Jackson) tells him in a terrifyingly distorted voice that “the world will end” in 28 days, and saves Donnie from a freak accident. For the next month, Donnie does whatever Frank tells him, upsetting the delicate social balance of his emotionally repressed suburb in the process...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debut of ‘Darko’ Disappoints at ART | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

Like children waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve, moviegoers had hopes for this one. Vince Vaughn and David Dobkin, the star and director of Wedding Crashers, reunite for a holiday comedy scripted by Dan Fogelman (one of the screenwriters of the Pixar movie Cars). Supporting Vaughn as the black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...they cheered everything the baby did: giving away his presents to needier kids, jumping down a chimney, chopping down a fir tree that his big brother happened to be perched in. Momma Claus (Kathy Bates) is the same kind of ego-destroyer as Steve Carell's mother is in Dan in Real Life. Her ragging on Fred, while Nick becomes a hero to children every December, leads Fred to spectacular resentment.? In a scene that's way too "ouch" for a PG comedy, grown-up Nick says, "You hate me," and grown-up Fred replies, "I don't hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

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