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Kudos to Bernanke for blunting the recession both in the U.S. and around the world. Critics are a dime a dozen, but the Fed chairman's visionary innovation is worth a million times his weight in gold. Innovation such as this is the only path out of our current economic slump. Robert Cassidy, WARWICK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernanke: A Bad Call ... | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...this town, humanity is represented by Claudia (Jennifer Beals), Carnegie's mistress and hostage, and her daughter Solara (Mila Kunis); they will be less Eli's allies than his baggage as he fights off Carnegie's gunmen. Not that Eli needs much help. A half-dozen men in the saloon, a dozen or more in a Main Street shoot-out, the whole Carnegie regiment ready to reduce to rubble the rural house Eli has holed up in with a grizzled couple (Brit theatrical giants Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour) and Solara - none of these armies can bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...domestic champ. Avatar is even closer to the record for worldwide ticket sales: at an estimated $1.836.1 billion, it's just $6 million behind Titanic's $1.842 billion. And it will reach that number tomorrow, unless the world ends tonight. Of course, there has been inflation in the past dozen years; Avatar still has to top Titanic's real-dollar domestic gross of $943.3 million, as adjusted by Box Office Mojo. (Another calculation has the real-dollar Titanic take at about $800 million.) Either way, though, Cameron's doing fine. (See the best movies, TV, books and theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Avatar Weekend: Legion Takes Its Lumps | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...Donnell said that prior to the volunteers’ arrival, the library systems in the three Caluco schools were either non-existent or severely lacking, with only a few dozen books—most of them tattered—and a mere notebook to keep track of circulation...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Bring Books To Caluco | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...demolition of the historic (circa 1948) Biltmore Hotel was easily green-lit. The Oasis Hotel, a masterpiece built in 1925 by Lloyd Wright (Frank's son), is now simply an obscure, nonfunctioning Art Deco tower left standing in the city's downtown. More than half a dozen other historic Palm Springs inns have also been razed in recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Live in Glass Houses | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

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