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...stockholder in Vinton's company, took over the place essentially to please his son Travis, who'd been a junior animator under Vinton. It's the grand gesture of which only zillionaires are capable. A man sees his child merrily playing with model trains, so he buys the kid Amtrak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...real" world Coraline will get the chance to be a heroine, to vanquish the villains and win her parents' attention (though Real Mother's lips remain Perma-pressed). But the happy ending doesn't dilute the story's moral, obvious enough to stick like a needle in any kid's eye. Both the book and movie warn kids to distrust the kindness of strangers, and find refuge in the prison of the status quo. It's important, Coraline says, for children to learn that real life, though it may be preferable to being devoured by a Spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...packs a wallop in the Ivy League. Columbia won both its games last weekend in front of a raucous crowd of its own, and they may struggle in this road contest. Penn 63, Columbia 61CORNELL at PRINCETONOne thing’s for sure about Princeton: this team has a kid who can shoot the leather of a basketball in freshman Doug Davis. The frontrunner for Ivy Rookie of the Year, Davis is averaging 13.7 points per game, and is coming off two strong performances in two big wins for the Tigers.Unfortunately for Princeton, Cornell has one of the best guards...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Expect Class of Ivies to Step Up | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...hasn’t had that many minutes lately, but he is capable of stepping in and being effective.”Tonight’s game, though it’s not The Game, still affects the pageantry associated with Harvard-Yale. “I think our kids will be very excited because we want to play well, we’re at home, and we’d like to see if we can win,” Amaker said. “But I think certainly, because it’s Yale, there?...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks for Ivy Turnaround at Home | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...film that catapulted him to national acclaim, Schrader spent a stretch of time living in his car, eventually coming to the chilling realization that he hadn’t spoken to another human being in weeks.“I’m like a kid in this steel box, this steel coffin, surrounded by all these people but all alone,” he recalled. “If I didn’t start writing this, it would have started writing me.” When Schrader has derived a story from a given problem, he develops...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schrader Discusses Characters, Career | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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