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...Line. It has all the elements: the big star (Jackson), the guiding impresario (Ortega) and, supporting them, a whole retinue of gifted, ambitious singers and dancers. The movie opens with the prospective dancers' declarations of the inspirational impact that Jackson has had on them. (O.K., they really need this job, but the effusions sound genuine.) Later, the men have to rehearse one of Jackson's more notorious dance figures. Apparently, grabbing your crotch while gliding across the stage is more difficult than it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's This Is It Review: He's Still a Thriller | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...purposes, it's made up mostly of spare shuttle parts and a mock segments - lifted off at 11:30 a.m. The rocket's first and upper stages separated on schedule, approximately two minutes into the flight. And early indications are that the more than 700 onboard sensors did their job by streaming back to Earth a treasure trove of data to validate Ares computer models, information to be used in tweaking the final design. Ares I-X got off the ground just 30 minutes before the launch window closed for the second day in a row. (See pictures of celestial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ares Liftoff: Learning from Space Shuttle Mistakes | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...This is not just their job, their extracurricular nine to five,” Cox said. β€œIt’s a place that they really love...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Single Ticket Vies For IOP Head | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Except her job was in jeopardy, like, 5 times in one episode, so her nanosecond of brilliance belies her true mental faculties...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: "How to Succeed in Bassness" β€” or, what NOT to do | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...seem like a full person. But Omar's memoir - which forms the core of the book - presents a strange and fascinating coming-of-age-story about a young boy who was groomed by his father to take over a worldwide terrorist enterprise but who instead chooses to get a job, start a family and play with animals. If the book suffers somewhat from the limitations of translation and overly formal prose, the thrill of being a fly on the wall of the bin Laden family drama quickly takes over. (See TIME's al-Qaeda covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Son Speaks | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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