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...rock band Drive Shaft. The office phone is answered with a Dharma Initiative-esque "Namaste!" And if we accept that fans can sometimes be the best critics, the skit takes the mickey out of two of the show's most overused transitions - the whooshing sound that indicates an imminent jump in time (either a flashback or a flash-forward) and the absurdly overused cliff-hanger cue. "If you say something cliff-hangery on the show, all the shrill, like crazy dramatic music comes on, and it cuts to black," notes one of the characters. "It's like the coolest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost: Season 5 Might Drive You Insane | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...company has stayed strong since the economic downturn began. "J. Crew continues to be one of the few retailers offering differentiated and unique merchandise to customers," analyst Christine Chen wrote this month in a report for Needham and Co. CEO Mickey Drexler, ex-chief of the Gap, has jump-started the brand by revamping the quality of its merchandise. But the economic downturn has not left J. Crew unscathed - profits fell 6% through the first three quarters of fiscal 2008. "It's a huge deal," says Marshal Cohen, retail analyst for the NPD Group, of the Inaugural exposure. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Sasha and Malia Give J. Crew a Lift? | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...about 1,660 places in the freshman class. We know the Houses are full to capacity and there are no places to put students in the Yard. As last year, we will be conservative in April and take more students from the waitlist in case there is a significant jump in the yield...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 29,000 High School Seniors Covet Place in the Class of 2013 | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

Very few people are going to read Change for America front to back. Broken up into topical essays, it's easy to jump back and forth between an explanation of how the Department of Homeland Security stinks to an argument in favor of a new National Energy Council. And while much of the book delves into government bureaucracy to an almost molecular degree, all Americans (even those who don't lean left) should flip through. You'll learn about your government (you'll re-learn all that stuff you picked up in high school and quickly forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Progressive Manual for Change | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...first half. While it gave up only 17 turnovers in the previous two games combined, the Crimson amassed 12 turnovers in the first half alone on Saturday. Because of that, Harvard only led once in the first period, 34-32, despite making 53-percent of its buckets.Dartmouth jumped to an early lead thanks to good shooting and Crimson mistakes. When Harvard notched its first tie at 14, with 12:48 left to go in the first period, Dartmouth responded with five unanswered points, closed out by an Alex Barnett dunk. A layup by sophomore forward Clive Weeden with...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Wins in Waning Seconds | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

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