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...remember telling him, ‘Eliot, have some fun. All work and no play makes Eliot a dull boy.’ But I wish he hadn’t listened to me,” he recalled with a laugh...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1984: Eliot Spitzer | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...With the love of his life gone, widower Carl (Ed Asner) might as well be dead. His grief has soured into guilt, which he walls up in a castle of cantankerousness. His day is a dull routine of dressing, hobbling with his cane to sit on the front porch and keeping his home just as it was when Ellie was there. It's really a mausoleum, and he is both caretaker and corpse. We never heard Carl say a word to Ellie while she was alive, but now he talks nonstop to his absent darling. She'd understand his bitterness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and Away: Another New High for Pixar | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...care? Some blame the E.U. as a whole for appearing remote, abstract, bureaucratic and dull. The Parliament itself is all of that - and less. It lacks visible personalities, and doesn't even have a ruling party or opposition to make it clear what is at stake. Instead, power is split among the big political groups - the conservatives, the liberals and the socialists - who rule largely by consensus. "This makes it difficult for people to see how their vote matters," says Karel Lannoo, CEO at the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank. "Since they do not do anything like elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Few Care About the European Parliament Elections | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...hate the New York Yankees for all the sad, dull reasons so many other people hate them. They win by outspending everyone. Their fans are arrogant. They also lie, steal and cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...that anything could keep Eminem, 36, from trying to win it back. Half of Relapse - the aggressively dull and stupid half - is devoted to re-establishing Eminem as a man so unhinged, he's capable of anything or at least fantasizing about anything. By the middle of the first song, "3 a.m.," Eminem, or one of his multiple alter egos, has masturbated to Hannah Montana and left a pile of bodies behind the counter of a McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eminem's Relapse: Back to His Old Tricks | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

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