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Here, working with Human Nature director Michel Gondry, Kaufman wonders whether one person can be true to another, whatever obstacles pile up. On Valentine's Day 2004, Joel Barish (a wonderfully forlorn Jim Carrey) decides to skip work and--who knows why--take a train to Montauk on the frosty tip of Long Island. There he is accosted by free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet, ornery and seductive). She lures mopey Joel into an affair, which proves to have as many abrasive spots as soft ones. Truth to tell, they're a wildly ill-suited pair. But, hey, bitter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Do I Love You? (I Forget) | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...pauses in her reminiscences when a couple of young customers wanders into the Grolier, “just browsing.” Though hoping they would actually make purchases at the end of the visit, Solano invites them to help themselves to a pile of old literary magazines...

Author: By Claire Provost, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grolier Book Shop To Close | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often ill, drunk or both. Most ominously, the aides press the consultants to let them know if Yeltsin has no chance, so they can "take steps"--which, we assume, will be more brutal than push polling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Moscow on the Hustings | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...penalties, four were for hits after the whistle, three were for unsportsmanlike conduct and three were for roughing. A fight broke out in the first, with Harvard’s Noah Welch and Vermont’s Jaime Sifers and Joey Gasparini being pulled from a pile next to the Harvard goal...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finally Something to Celebrate: Men's Hockey Closes Season With Dominating Win | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...aside the secrecy. Cindy, 53, started stockpiling cash in the late 1990s, when the family business slumped. "There was a lot of tension, and I had seen some ugly divorces," she explains. so she began to stow $100 bills in an old pair of alligator shoes hidden under a pile of hats in a closet. Two years ago, when the family finances had stabilized, she told her husband about her stash. By then it was so large--$12,000--that she felt he should know about it in case anything happened to her. They agreed to put the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Stash | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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