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...event. We can book the heck out of it and make the show something special every time. The downside is, you're right - the theater's going to be empty tomorrow night. I have to settle in and make sure it's comfortable right away. There's no grace period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcaster Joe Buck | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

Ferrell's latest excursion into delusions of manhood is director Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost, an action comedy with the sloppy construction and saving grace notes of the star's other movies. It's based on the Sid and Marty Krofft live-action adventure show - about a man and his son and daughter who are trapped in a time-warp landscape of dinosaurs and talking lizards - that lasted for just 43 episodes on Saturday mornings in the mid-'70s. The series is recalled fondly for its hokey acting and the aliens whose costumes had visible zippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Lost: Delusions of Manhood | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...nuclear weapons researchers and producers] were scared and brought out the big bucks and guns to fight this; they had really deceptive ads with scientists behind bars,” said Grace C. Ross ’83. Ross, who worked on the Nuclear Free Cambridge campaign, said that they had calculated at the time that the defense industry had spent 27 dollars per vote to rally citizens against...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Activists Go Nuclear | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...that rush to safety has already abated, and over longer periods, Schiff's decade-old strategy of steering clients out of U.S. securities and into commodities and overseas stocks has been a big winner. His investment record surely can't be the reason for his fall from media grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Should Listen to Peter Schiff's Bad News | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...wrote her Princeton thesis about being black in the Ivy League knows that the difference between success and failure can be cruelly random. She knew lots of bright kids growing up, she says, "and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God." She had friends who could have thrived in college, but their parents didn't believe in going into debt to pay for it. "I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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