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...city ready to explode from its own ambitions and animosities, from all that compressed energy; they'll just give it a push into catastrophe. But I have to agree with my wife, who, when I told her about Cloverfield, sighed and said, "Couldn't somebody, just once, pick Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...look for signals of good genes and reproductive fitness in potential partners and, importantly, to display them ourselves. "Every living human is a descendant of a long line of successful maters," says David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. "We've adapted to pick certain types of mates and to fulfill the desires of the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Love | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...Bailey, a Republican who worked for Gerald Ford, and Rafshoon, a Democrat who helped elect Jimmy Carter in 1976, recently resigned from a months-long project called UNITY 08 designed to encourage people to pick and elect a mixed ticket with a Republican and a Democrat for President and vice president. They are placing their bets now on a Bloomberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Draft Bloomberg Movement Launched | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

There was a 20-minute break, to give the legal teams time to look over the new evidence. When proceedings started up again, there was only an hour left - just enough time for Mansfield to pick apart everything Burrell had said the day before. Why had Burrell claimed that the letter was at his house in Cheshire when it was really in Florida? Why had he told the court there was one secret, when he knew there were two? And why was he even saying they were secrets when he had published at least one of them in a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana Secret Outed! Court Let Down! | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...first game,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “We were horrendous shooting the basketball. We were 17-for-26 from the foul line, 3-for-16 from three, 18-for-52 from the floor, five assists, 17 turnovers. You pick it, it was the total opposite from a week ago. Not very good, to say the least.”Hurting Harvard’s cause was a leg injury suffered by sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli in the first minute of the game. The big man who led the team in scoring in each...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartmouth Avenges Last Week’s Defeat | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

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