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Starting July 13, The Office will begin streaming 10 2-min. "webisodes" through nbc.com Think of them as The Office, the downsized version. The cast is smaller: the plot follows the supporting characters of the Dunder-Mifflin paper company's accounting department as they track down $3,000 missing from the books. Most important, from the network's standpoint, the budget is smaller. "I don't even know if we had a budget," says executive producer Greg Daniels. "It's more like an extra fee." Chalk up another irony for The Office: you have a big year, and the boss...
...announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, but the party renominates Taft--even though Roosevelt won all but one primary and caucus. The new Progressive (Bull Moose) Party promptly adopts T.R. as its candidate. That October he is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., but gives a 90-min. speech before seeing a doctor. Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected on Nov. 5, 1912; T.R., the runner-up, garners the largest percentage of votes ever by a third-party candidate. In the fall of 1913, T.R. travels to South America, where he gives lectures and explores Brazil's "River...
...min. Amount of time before Brazil's World Cup games begin that businesses in the country close so employees can watch the matches...
...Magicians, from South Korea?s Song Il-gon, is a 95-min. film, shifting from past to present, interior to outdoors, and achieved in one continuous take. (Or did I spot a cheating black spot at 48 minutes?) The story is about love, male bonding, regret and pop music, but the camera stunt is the main reason to stick around. And if you want a feature-length movie done in one exhilaratingly elaborate take, get Aleksandr Sokurov?s Russian...
These eminences (all left-handed; explain) are among the legion of Will Shortz's subjects. Shortz, the Times's crossword editor, is a genial gent who since 1978 has run an annual tournament for the sort of people who can finish a Sunday puzzle in 10 min.--in ink. Their number include Ellen Ripstein, a self-described "little nerd girl," and Tyler Hinman, who at 20 could become the tournament's youngest-ever winner...