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...hippie commune who badgers Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. Later she played a studio executive opposite Nicolas Cage in Adaptation and tried to explain the plot of Vanilla Sky to Tom Cruise. Fantasy fans remember her as the icy White Witch of the Narnia films and as the soaring, fallen Angel Gabriel tempting Keanu Reeves in Constantine. Recently, and notably, Swinton has had on-screen affairs with Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and George Clooney (Burn After Reading). She was also Clooney's legal antagonist, an agribusiness executive, in Michael Clayton - a film that earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

Straus, who provided musical enjoyment for the attendees of the Lowell, Leverett, and Cabot/Pfoho formals was also originally planning to play the Mather formal last night, but the gig seems to have fallen through at the last minute. The reason, after the jump...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: DJ Straus Wants To 'Raise Your Standards' | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...bill's first hurdle is the Energy and Commerce Committee. Facing blanket GOP opposition, Chairman Henry Waxman is seeking a majority among Democrats and negotiating separately with a number of members who represent regional and constituent concerns. Agreements have not quickly fallen into place, however, prompting a pair of developments Monday: a pep talk by President Obama, who reiterated his support for such legislation at a 90-minute White House meeting with Waxman and colleagues, and a public acknowledgement of the lack of consensus by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who told reporters,: "Whether it's a gridlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats Try to Haggle Together a Cap and Trade Bill | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...bullying are more likely to be boys than girls. Only in Hungary and Greece are girls victims of bullying more often than, or equal to, boys. There are no countries with more female than male perpetrators. ... Underage drinking is a big problem in the United Kingdom. Although rates have fallen since 2001/2002, in 2005/2006 one in three girls between 13 and 15 said they got drunk regularly in the United Kingdom, more than anywhere else. Boys of the same age were only just behind (32%), second only to Denmark (34%). With around one in ten male teenagers not in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OECD Report: How to Measure Life Satisfaction | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...young Himalayan republic. On Monday, in a dramatic climax to a televised address to the nation, Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda resigned after the President thwarted his move to sack the country's army chief. The army chief, Gen. Rukmangad Katawal, who had close ties to the fallen monarchy, was against taking in "politically indoctrinated" soldiers - a clear reference to Prachanda's Maoist brethren-in-arms. Since the peace accord, the Army has opposed full integration, fearful that the Maoists would then insinuate themselves into the military power structure. Facing intransigence, Prachanda directed that the general be fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's PM Resigns, in New Crisis for Maoists | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

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