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...Maybe there's no way the rest of the film could match this opening, and for sure it doesn't. Snyder spends much of the movie's 2 hours and 40 minutes on the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the nattering of the obligatory romance. He also encourages a little festival of tone-deaf acting. Yet Watchmen has moments of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

Relative calm returned to global bourses Tuesday following Monday's battering. Asian markets closed slightly down, while European indices reflected modest opening gains. But many observers see Tuesday's lull as little more than a break between rounds in a particularly brutal boxing match. "The markets certainly got a breather today," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong, of Tuesday's respite. "(But) I believe it will be short-lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian and European Markets Calmer, but More Chaos Ahead | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...blossoming friendships away from the pool have impacted the group’s performance in the pool.“Your personality outside of the water also corresponds to the way you play,” Zdrojewski says.When Farrar posted the starting lineup two days before the opening match, the girls were shocked to see five of their names in the starting seven. The rookies were also quick to note that playing on Farrar’s team does not reflect any hierarchy, but rather a tactic used to get an advantage on the opponent.“I think...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rookies Find Place In and Out of the Water | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...gunmen killed five policemen, two bystanders and the bus driver. Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Two of the cricketers were shot, while others sustained minor injuries from flying debris. The reserve umpire for the ongoing test match, Ahsan Raza, a Pakistani, is in critical condition. "It was horrifying," Nadeem Ghouri, the Pakistani umpire, told Reuters. "There were bullets flying around us and we didn't know what was happening. When the firing started, we all went down on the floor of the coach. Our driver was killed instantly from a shot from the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team: Echoes of Mumbai? | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...fighting. If so, it would be betting that just as the Jewish state wound up with egg on its face after wars in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2009, Israel's political position would be further weakened by another war, even if the Syrian military is no match for Israel's in a head-to-head clash. No doubt Syrian generals have been studying Hamas' and Hizballah's tactics very carefully and watching as the snow melts in Majdal Shams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Courts Syria, but Will Israel Play Ball? | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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