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...folks whose ambition drove them to be successful physicians, caregivers, inventors and scientists - people who actually work to keep humankind alive and functioning. Here's to the B-team players! Bill Lenters Rockford, Illinois, U.S. I enjoyed reading your article about ambition as I lay on my sofa munching popcorn. I'm now working up the ambition to go make dinner and finish the laundry. Annette Brehm West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. Ford Focused The quality of Ford's products must be improved [Feb. 6]. It's not rocket science. Build safe and sturdy cars that last, and they will sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Way to Civil War? | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...month and to build ties with black student groups on campus. We gave our monthly movie night a black history focus, and got the Black Students Association (BSA), the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) to co-sponsor the event. Popcorn popped and DVD cued up, we watched as member after member of our organization flowed into the Dunster House TV room—but not a single student from the co-sponsoring groups arrived...

Author: By Greg M. Schmidt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Diversity Meaningful | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...learn how to fly an airplane! He wants to have three of them! I bet you if you could pay to go to Mars, he'd do that. And I'd be like, You know what? I've TiVoed the Super Bowl, and I'm just gonna eat popcorn. I'll see ya when you get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jodie Foster | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...walks down the red carpet and into Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater, the students took their places in Cambridge’s Eliot, Pforzheimer, and Lowell Houses to enjoy the show. The festivities varied in size and scope, but the common thread throughout seemed to be free food. Popcorn was the standard, but some venues went beyond. Eliot House’s Oscar observances were punctuated by a special Eliot HoCo-sponsored deal at the Eliot Grille. Starting at 8 p.m., the first $100 of ordered food came free, a number that was reached...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Gather To Cheer On the Stars | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

That is surely an apt subject for a movie--even, and especially, a popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Can A Popcorn Movie Also Be Political? This One Can | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

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