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...thriller and rural-trash-melodrama genres. Like The Night of the Living Dead, it's about a random bunch of people trapped in a shack and beset by flesh-dripping, flesh-eating zombies. In the spirit of that 1968 classic, Planet Terror celebrates the community of the still-living, except that Rodriguez's humans do a lot less grousing than George Romero's did. It's also got deadly gases, go-go dancers, pretty disgusting shots of men with extreme gonadal anomalies, and Bruce Willis as the man who killed bin Laden. (Who else would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grindhouse Is Girls, Guns, Cars — But No Sex | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...close friend or relative in medicine, you still need a good generalist - someone who knows you and knows the ropes. This is going to take effort and maybe some money; there are fewer of them and HMO fees are so low that many won't take on new patients except as a favor. This is especially true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former will save you a lot of anxiety, waiting-room time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Special is Too Special? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...back. The Crimson relished its first opportunity this year to play in the sun, quickly snapping up the doubles point with two of three wins—anchored by the solid net play of Ermakov and Kumar at No. 1—and then winning all its singles matches except for at No. 1 and 4, where Clayton and Deneberg were outgunned by their opponents...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Falls Just Shy of Four-Win Trip | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

Harvard would only score once more while BU went on to score in every inning except the second. In addition to having 10 hits on the day, two of which cleared the fence, the Terriers were helped by three costly Harvard errors...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Sweeps, Gets Swept in Ivy Openers | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...That There" and the No. 1 "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief." But Hutton could also find the aching heart in plaintive ballads; her versions of "It Had to Be You" and "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" both made the top five. She would have had more hits, except that in 1942, just as she was becoming a break-out star, the musicians' union imposed a two-year ban on recording...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

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