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...similarity was first noticed by TPM on Sunday, and by the evening a mortified Dowd had apologized, saying she had not read Marshall's column but that evidently someone she knew had. "I was talking to a friend of mine Friday about what I was writing," she wrote in an e-mail to the Huffington Post, among others, "who suggested I make this point, expressing it in a cogent - and I assumed spontaneous - way and I wanted to weave the idea into my column." The Times amended the Web version and noted the correction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Maureen Dowd Guilty of Plagiarism? | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...kind of movie people see because they have to - because it's the weekend's big new attraction, and marketing and habit have schooled them to want to see it on opening day. And occasionally there's a film people see because they want to - because a friend told them it's fun, or they've already enjoyed it and want to return. This weekend, obligation was represented by Angels & Demons, a sequel of sorts to the 2006 superhit The Da Vinci Code, with the same star, Tom Hanks, and director, Ron Howard; and pure movie pleasure, by last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Hanks by a Hair | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...mother. Pat Tillman considered as his “hero” Rachel Corrie, a peace activist crushed to death when she placed herself—living Mario Savio’s words—between a bulldozer and a home. And, according to Tillman’s friend, Army Spec. Russell Baer, “Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f***ing illegal.’… He totally was against Bush...

Author: By Jonathan D. Farley | Title: Anti-War Hero | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

Actually, I didn't. But I could have - because that's why Lily missed some school this week in Des Moines. She needed to get to the Polk County Court House on time. Her friend's mother, Patti Woodward-Young, and Patti's longtime companion, Kate Joeckel, were getting married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fragility of Gay Iowa | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

Remember when you considered writing that thesis? Now's the one day a year you can feel bad about taking the easy road to drunken senior spring. Yes, it's the 2009 Hoopes Prizes! The list (here, quick read it so you can congratulate that friend of yours that everybody knew was going to win it!) contains some of the most arcane paper titles we've seen this side of a neuroscience convention. And of course, we've got lots of the standard "Colorful Quote": Boring Description of Paper Title Construction (The thesis we always wanted to write was "From...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Hoopes-la | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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