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...Baltimore Sun reports, some on the Baltimore campus are up in arms over the decision. Students created a Facebook group encouraging others to wear Hopkins paraphernalia in hopes that some of it might make it onto movie screens. From...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Harvard: The Johns Hopkins of the Northeast | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...will ask his loyal fans to donate money to the U.S. Speedskating team, whose largest commercial cash sponsor, Dutch bank DSB, just went belly-up. (Colbert snarkily referred to DSB as "Deposit Savings in Bong.") In exchange for the publicity and potential revenue, Colbert Nation logos will be stitched onto the suits of both long-track and short-track skaters during World Cup competitions before the Olympics. Right now, the long-track team is preparing for a competition in Berlin, while the short trackers are in Montreal for a meet. "We are scrambling like crazy to get the logos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colbert to the Rescue: Can He Save U.S. Speedskating? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Paramount's saying no to Tom Cruise a shrewd business move? Saying no publicly is unlikely to be a shrewd business move. Competitors exploit that. But an alternative is quietly saying no and making sure to let your competitors know you are saying no so they can pile onto the policy of fiscal discipline. There are lots of other things you can give talent besides money. For years Goldman Sachs convinced people that their highest value was their connection to Goldman Sachs. And people hardly ever left the firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...driver was 26-year-old Han Han: best-selling novelist, champion amateur race-car driver, wildly popular blogger and, as his self-consciously provocative antics at the track underlined, China's most media-savvy celebrity rebel. Since 2000, when he burst onto China's literary scene at the age of 17 with his first best seller, Triple Gate, Han has shrewdly mined a seam of youthful resentment and anomie through his stories of anguished characters in their late teens and early 20s. One of China's top-earning authors, he is widely seen as a torchbearer for the generation born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Han Han: China's Literary Bad Boy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...letters and journals written by soldiers, and they yield hundreds of shockingly vivid vignettes from the beaches and trenches. You won't soon forget the account of Bill Millin, bagpiper for the 1st Special Service Brigade of the British Army, who had to march out of the surf onto Sword Beach under rifle and mortar fire playing "Highland Laddie." And Beevor focuses on things other writers have neglected. For example, he doesn't gloss over the hideous costs paid by French civilians. The Allies, before liberating them, bombed them relentlessly in an attempt to paralyze the German army. Three thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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