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...they are the results of choices we made and habits we acquired and systems we built back in the 20th century. Different, 21st century choices are now available to us. Dysfunction and profligacy aren't inevitable, and the American tendency to magical thinking can be kept in check. The diehard opposition of powerful institutions (oil companies, agribusiness, the health-insurance industry, teachers unions and more) to fundamental change is implacable, for sure, but it isn't invincible. We can rediscover common sense and the better angels of our nature. We possess the ability to rejigger and renovate our lives...
...Commentators have already dubbed the IPL the "NRIPL" - Non-Resident Indian Premier League and fans are outraged that the games will be played off shore. "Imagine an 'Indian' Premier League in South Africa," says self-confessed cricket diehard Nikhil Lodaya, a Mumbai-based public relations executive, "It's just too desperate!" Lodaya says he planned to watch the matches on television, so it doesn't matter if the matches are played in Mumbai or London. "But for a sport I love, it's painful to see what has happened." (Read a TIME story on the worst sporting attacks...
...strikes up a quick animosity with a sassy cat named Mittens (Curb Your Enthusiasm's Susie Essman). Their itinerary will be no secret to the youngest of viewers: cat and dog, joined by Rhino (Disney animator Mark Walton), a hamster who travels in a Plexiglas ball. Through Rhino, a diehard fan of the TV show, Bolt realizes that his powers aren't so super, and he comes to suspect that Penny was just another jaded Hollywood actress who'd forget about him when she left...
...YALE 3, HARVARD 0 Last time the Crimson played the Bulldogs, the team battled hard but was edged out by the league-leaders in a devastating fifth game. Fast forward to Friday night, and Harvard was looking for revenge. “We came into this being very, very diehard excited and ready to win,” McKinley said. Despite its desire for vengeance, the Crimson could not come out on top, let alone match the previous game’s efforts, falling 25-14, 25-16, 25-19. In the first game, Yale took an early lead...
...years, David Cronenberg, director of such films as Scanners (1981), Dead Ringers (1988) and A History of Violence (2005), has been called the "King of Venereal Horror" and the "Baron of Blood." But more and more, he's being recognized as something else: a thinking man's filmmaker. A diehard existentialist, Cronenberg has infused philosophy into his films over the years; some critics even called his 1986 blockbuster The Fly an inspired allegory for the AIDS epidemic. And if anyone still doubted his high-culture credibility, now Cronenberg is tackling the medium of Mozart...