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...MARYLAND MESS The iconic blue crab has had a tough year. As the Chesapeake's season comes to an end, scientists expect one of the lowest harvests in more than 60 years as a result of pollution and catch allowances that may be too permissive for a population in severe decline. The bay was home to 852 million crabs in 1993, but now there are only 273 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...comment on Nov. 6, Jessica C. Coggins (“Don’t Mess With Texas”) sent a good message about cultural openness. But she used it as a vehicle for unrelated and divisive shameless self-promotion of the second biggest state...

Author: By Jack Gage and Ken W. Mckinley | Title: Coggins Should Have Focused on Alaska | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...historical footage. It recreates, in a tight-budget sort of way, big moments in Dylan's life. Sometimes it just fictionalizes, often quite a prettily, his private life. This is not carelessness; it is a studied and highly self-conscious. But it doesn't work. It is just a mess - though the sound track, full of Dylan songs is, of course, good to hear. But it is not better than the track on Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home documentary of two years ago. That film also caught the messiness of this life and, as its title implies, its lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Not There: Deconstructing Dylan | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...already implemented plenty of ideas at LACMA. The museum had been without an art expert at its helm much of the past 15 years, and Broad ticks off the tasks Govan took on. "We had to re-energize the staff, rebuild our board of trustees and make an architectural mess a more coherent campus," says Broad. "And we had to raise a lot of money to pay for all this. Michael was the ideal leader to make all that happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Out Of the Box | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...devoid of compassion. The relatable qualities of her character are spoiled, and, while Black and Leigh devolve into the crazies they’re destined to be and Pais’ character is pushed more and more into Kidman’s shadow, the film becomes a confusing, unlikable mess. The beauty that Baumbach spends the entire film trying to evoke, however, surprises the audience in the movie’s final moments. Whether this ultimately redeems Baumbach and “Margot at the Wedding” is up for debate, but, for some viewers, it may just...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Margot at the Wedding | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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