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...Twilight” series, Stephanie Meyer. While we were all fidgeting over the release of the next “Harry Potter” book in the first half of this decade, Meyer was working away on an idea that would make Potter look disturbingly mainstream-pagan. Before I go any further, here’s a refresher on the “Twilight” series: it’s an allegory for waiting to have sex until after marriage. Charming. Mormonly charming. If you’ve watched or read the first installment, this intention is immediately evident...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Hot Topic: Vamps Don’t Really Suck, Per Se | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...first, picked up by M. Ward’s croon, imbued with phonographic warmth and evocative lyrics: “The Sandman’s waiting to deliver me my dream / Guess I’ll lay my head against the elbow and the window / and watch the wheels go.” Then it builds, swept away by M. Ward’s chugging, steam-engine strum and Oberst’s tense splashes of lap steel that lead it into a blazing release. When Jim James’ rich harmonies fan across the track, it?...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Monsters of Folk | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...thing is conspicuously missing from Feingold's bill: The sponsorship of Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leahy has proposed a different bill, which does not go as far as Feingold?s. For example, it does not place the same strict limits on National Security Letters as Feingold?s. Assistant Attorney General David Kris, chief of the Department of Justice's National Security Division, said the Administration had not fully reviewed or taken a stance on either bill. Justice officials say they're willing to discuss added protections for civil liberties and privacy, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Liberal Democrats Reform the Patriot Act? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Yeltsin, Boris • 1995 efforts of to hail a taxi in front of the White House - while drunk and clothed only in underwear - to go get a pizza

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...university staff attended a noon rally at Sproul Plaza during the system-wide "Day of Action." At UCLA, about 700 people gathered at Bruin Plaza and at normally placid U.C. Irvine approximately 500 people attended the noon rally. One protester held a sign that read: "If I wanted to go to a private school, I would have been born into a rich family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Budget Crunch: The Universities Protest | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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