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...staying out of the dramatic fray. Bettany looks as though he's itching to do the same, but he gets stuck with a lot of self-important strutting and moping and as result, he fares the worst. The movie veers between silly and scary, but ultimately, its tone and level of violence seem inappropriate for either a typical PG audience or Funke's original intended 9-12 target audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tall, Unfocused Tales of Inkheart | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets and promotional efforts and this much talent involved" takes special effort, Wilson notes. "You look at a movie like Indiana Jones 4 and it's such a spectacular train wreck that it really does deserve recognition at some level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Razzies | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...graduate schools at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Duke, the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Dartmouth will be accepting approximately the same number of students that they admitted last year, according to high-level officials at those schools...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D. Admissions Tighter as Applications Rise, Fellowships Stagnate | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...Hunting? Save Your Receipts The Secretary of Treasury job is not a position that finds you. Presumably, Geithner did some high-level networking and even flew out to Chicago a few times to meet with Obama in order to land the nomination - not to mention the trip to Washington for the confirmation grilling. Good news, Tim. According to Barbara Weltman, editor of the popular tax guide J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax, all those trips are tax deductible. So we hope you saved your receipts. The IRS will let you write off a third of the amount of your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tax Tips for Timothy Geithner | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...Inaugural committees said to me, "Charlie, you're the President's announcer, aren't you?" And I said, "Yes sir." And he said, "You know why they call you that?" I said, "Not really." "Well," he said, "The vantage point of the President is at the street level. He can't really see that good as to what's coming and what's going. But he's listening to you. So when you say, 'The U.S. Marine Corps Band is now advancing to the presidential reviewing stand,' he knows when to stand, when to sit, when to salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inaugural Parade Announcer | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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