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...doesn't just rail at the White House's fumbling of military and financial issues; she's got helpful hints, like putting working moms in charge of the defense budget ("There's a sale on bombs at Target"). Of the newer comics with DVDs, Sykes is the finest shaper of routines, and her stiletto is the sharpest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Standouts of Stand-up Comedy Come to DVD | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...success. A missed field goal and another Dawson touchdown were the end results, and the team went into locker rooms at halftime up 17-7 on the strength of Dawson’s 73 first-half yards, 64 of them coming on ten second-quarter carries. But perhaps his finest run was his third and final touchdown scamper of the afternoon, a sprint around the right end on fourth-and-one from the 28-yard line that put Harvard up 31-7 and ended all thoughts of a Holy Cross comeback. “It was supposed to be more...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dawson Shoulders Burden In Season Opener | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...human cost. And there's the hope the film leaves its viewers with. These articulate, caring young people are our best and bravest. Some of them should be in Congress, as the nagging conscience of the U.S. adventure in Iraq. Their passion makes The Ground Truth by far the finest film to emerge from the awful tangle of 9/11 and the Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Coming Home Isn't Easy | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...DIED. Miguel (Anga) Diaz, 45, considered the finest conga virtuoso of his generation, who energized genres from jazz to traditional Cuban standards with his battering five-drum technique; of a heart attack; in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, Spain. A player on the 1997 trilogy of albums of Cuban maestros that launched the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, Diaz became a force on the British label World Circuit, which last year released his album Echu Mingua, an electrifying mélange of West African music, hip-hop and riffs on jazz classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...seven-year-old decided to make him a sandwich. She tore holes in the bread with chunks of too-cold butter, stuck on a slice of ham and smeared the lot with enough hot English mustard to make a shark weep. Len ate it as though it were the finest dish ever offered to him, licked his lips and said, "Lucy, that was so delicious I simply have to have another." She beamed with joy and triumph; it was an expression he made appear on many faces throughout his glorious life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man in Full | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

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