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Brokeback Mountain, a western about two cowboys, Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the convulsive, frustrating, 20-year love affair they endure, has quickly become the favorite topic of every late-night TV host. Jay Leno imagined Clint Eastwood and John Wayne as gay caballeros. Jon Stewart displayed a doctored Brokeback poster with Senators Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd. Letterman's website invited fans to submit their own "Top 10 Rejected Titles for Brokeback Mountain." (Among the winners: Oklahomo, Little Bathhouse on the Prairie and The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous!) Jack's plaintive cry to Ennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the West Was Won Over | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...World Cup circuit Miller is rock-star popular and travels like one. Rather than stay in hotels, he does the Alpine tour in a recreational vehicle driven by his boyhood friend Jake Sereno. His uncle, Mike Kenney, a former ski racer, acts as his personal adviser. From Camp Bode, he patrols the Internet (where he met his girlfriend Karen Sherri), writes an online journal for the Denver Post, conducts a radio show for Sirius and hangs out, often with the press and his fans camped outside. "For me, he's all the best things about America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel on the Edge | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

Thomas Bausman, 2, and his brother Jake, 10 months, are typical American babies. Every day, Thomas settles down to watch two hours of television, while Jake sits in front of the set for an hour, the national average for their respective ages. Their favorite thing to watch, by far? Baby Einstein. Anita Bausman could not be more pleased with her children's preference. Jake, she reports, learned colors, numbers and his love of robots from the popular videos, which are filled with puppets, animals and moving objects, often set to classical music. "It's not just turning on Nickelodeon," Bausman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Sharp: Want a Brainier Baby? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

TROY, N.Y.—When Jake Morissette fired the eventual game-winner past Harvard goaltender John Daigneau with one second remaining on a Crimson bench minor, the rowdy Rensselaer crowd started chanting...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET A LODHA THIS: To Dance, Harvard Needs To Awaken From Its ‘Sleepwalking’ | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...officiated...so I was frustrated. It’s no excuse for getting a penalty, though.”A high wrister and a glove-side attempt put the Engineers up 2-0 in the second period, and then just as time ticked down on the bench minor, Jake Morissette took a long pass along the right side, deked once, and then sailed the puck over goaltender John Daigneau’s glove.The Crimson responded with a goal 1:04 later, a Dylan Reese shot from the blue line that somehow dribbled by Lange, and Harvard closed...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Road Woes Plague Crimson | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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