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When Hollywood wants to extend the life of one of its movie tough guys, expand his audience and give him a dose of humiliation, it pairs him with a kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and John Travolta have all endured this mid-career ordeal. Now it's Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan, Babysitter | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

...feels muddled as well. “Midsummer” unfolds in Midway Studios, a multi-level space replete with brick walls and fascinating architecture. It’s a venue that abounds with creative possibilities, which makes the use of space in this production feel underwhelming and conventional. John Malinowski’s lighting fails to help delineate spaces or clarify locations, the exception being an electrifying sequence in which Puck (Maurice Emmanuel Parent) enters the nighttime forest under eerie, deep-blue backlight...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ASP's 'Midsummer' Anything But a Dream | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

...past, Harvard has accepted as many as 75 transfer students in a year. The Crimson reported in 2008 that such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy ’40, Henry A. Kissinger ’50, and W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, came to Harvard as transfer students...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College To Resume Accepting Transfer Applications | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...billion limit set by President Obama. Then again, House and Senate leaders are currently negotiating all sorts of adjustments for a merged bill, and any new Medicaid costs could be part of that calculation. "Having the Federal Government pay the complete thing is not that big a deal," says John Holahan, an economist who has studied the Medicaid expansion extensively and who is also director of the Health Policy Research Center at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Urban Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What if All 50 States Get Ben Nelson's Medicaid Deal? | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

University spokesman John D. Longbrake said that notice of the upcoming audit was delivered to the University and added that the University and HMC are considered separate legal entities in several respects. For instance, HMC and the University file separate non-profit tax returns...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Natural Target for IRS Audit, Administrator Says | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

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