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The ancient Mayan calendar supposedly predicted a worldwide calamity for the year 2012, but few box-office analysts foresaw that Roland Emmerich's cheesy a-popcorn-alypse thriller would earn $65 million at the domestic box office in its first three days. Budgeted at way over $200 million, 2012 outgrossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: 2012 Masters Disaster | 11/15/2009 | See Source »

That's pretty impressive, considering that 2012 is not a sequel or a brand name and that its stars (John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson) are associated more with indie fare than with blockbusters. All Emmerich had to work with was a vaguely ominous future date - think 1984...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: 2012 Masters Disaster | 11/15/2009 | See Source »

“Everybody Learns From Disaster,” with its galloping beat and Bon Jovi-esque lyrics, full of reckless abandon and an “us-against-the-world” mentality, proves to be the album’s best narrative, as Carrabba recalls the glories...

Author: By Zachary N. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dashboard Confessional | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

If anything, the best lesson to date that can be drawn from the show is the one manifested in the remarkable pluck and ingenuity of the Draper himself. Faced with the decision to continue on blindly, and unhappily, as a piece in a nebulous mechanism he has no control over...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mad Men’ Reflects American Spirit | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the days of e-mails driving prosecutions may be coming to an end. Eliot Spitzer exploded e-mail onto the legal scene in the early part of this decade. As New York attorney general, Spitzer used internal e-mails sent by analysts to prove that Wall Street firms were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bear Stearns Verdict: A Blow to E-Mail Prosecutions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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