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...Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line on the Horizon is mostly restless, tentative and confused. It's not terrible, but it feels like the work of musicians torn between the comfort of the present and the lure of one last run into the adventurous past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U2's Unsatisfied — and Unsatisfying — New Album | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...hairdressing (Blow Out), real estate (Million Dollar Listing), upscale gyms (Work Out), home décor (Top Design), even exclusive-travel-booking (First Class All the Way). Whether you snark at the housewives or cheer for Top Chef's hopeful restaurateurs, there's always a window-shopping appeal: the aspirational lure of those spa treatments and seared foie gras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Diggers of 2009 | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...rapidly moving plot, and easily recognizable actors. There is also a noticeable lack of interference on the part of Kechiche; the movie does not have a dramatic soundtrack, for instance, that would attempt to evoke specific reactions and emotions in the audience. These subtle directorial choices might fail to lure the average viewer, but those who open their hearts to the life of a man working at a fishing boat dock will likely find themselves steadily absorbed in his relationships and all their complications. The story revolves around Slimane (Habib Boufares), a tired 61-year-old shipyard worker...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret of Grain | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...site seems to have pink and purple lettering. Is this to lure more females into the dating realm? SY: Any dating site, just like a nightclub or bar, you always want to attract the women, because wherever the women are, men will surely follow. Indeed, we have a higher portion of women on our Web site than others: we’re 1:1 while most are 2:1 male to female...

Author: By Catherine A. Zielinski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Sam A. Yagan ’99 | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug problems, leadership problems." But his company commander talked him into re-enlisting. The lure: the chance to join the Rangers, the elite warrior corps that Mellinger came to love (his 3,700 parachute jumps add up to more than 33 hours in freefall). Re-enlisting "was the best decision of my career," Mellinger says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Last Draftee: "I'm a Relic" | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

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