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Fincher, whose work on Fight Club and Panic Room displayed his expertise in melding the suspenseful and the lurid, plays it cool here. He lets his stars do their thing: Ruffalo emitting just a whisper of rage under his just-the-facts-ma'am demeanor; Downey playing the chatty, suicidal genius (the actor's line readings always have a jazzman's musical ingenuity); and Gyllenhaal in his winsome mode, looking like a puppy who just got swatted with a newspaper by the master he somehow still adores. The star quality has to carry the movie, all 2 1/2 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Anatomy of a Manhunt | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...market as a major tool of financing." Investors who thus savaged the stock of, say, Caterpillar Inc., a heavy-equipment maker in Peoria, Illinois, because they feared the company's booming China business was suddenly going to fall off the cliff should probably rethink that a bit. As Jun Ma, the chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, says, "We do not see any significant impact of this market correction on China's real economy. We remain bullish on the fundamentals of the economy," which is still steaming ahead this year at a growth rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Factor | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...market as a major tool of financing." Investors who thus savaged the stock of, say, Caterpillar Inc., a heavy-equipment maker in Peoria, Illinois, because they feared the company's booming China business was suddenly going to fall off the cliff should probably rethink that a bit. As Jun Ma, the chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, says, "We do not see any significant impact of this market correction on China's real economy. We remain bullish on the fundamentals of the economy," which is still steaming ahead this year at a growth rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind China's Stock Meltdown | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...president make it an early priority to raise the scholarly standards required of current undergraduates? It is no doubt a thankless task to undertake, but one that would have the minor benefit of improved commentary in The Crimson. DAVID S. GREWAL ’98 February 13th, 2007 Cambridge, MA...

Author: By David E. Grewal | Title: President-Elect Faust Is a Wise, Intellectual Choice | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...least by ear. And every Metallica fan: the band has used his theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to open its concerts for decades. On the new CD We All Love Ennio Morricone, his music is covered by artists from Bruce Springsteen to Yo-Yo Ma, Céline Dion to Quincy Jones. The Film Forum, Manhattan's top rep house, is mounting a three-week Morricone tribute. At 78, this preposterously prolific composer (the Internet Movie Database lists 505 film and TV scores) is the music man of the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: The Music Man with No Name | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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