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...amounts of head-scratching from the industry solons. Is it just that the masses don't want to see sophisticated espionage capers starring, ugh, a girl? For now, let's not put the burden on Julia. Best to blame the title, which promises the average moviegoer nothing except a problem pronouncing it to the multiplex ticket seller. Only two live-action films with one-word, four-syllable titles have ever grossed more than $100 million total; and the two that did, Phenomenon and Collateral, just barely scraped that number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office: Fast & Furious by a Mile | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...Besides, printing thousands of copies of the guidebooks—which were only valid for one year—was wasteful and inefficient, and an online version will save money and prove more environmentally beneficial. But the mere absence of hard copies is not a solution to the larger problem of the current guidebooks, print or online. In their current condition, these guides—specifically the Q Guide—need a major reconfiguration, and we can only hope that the shift to an online version will be a catalyst for the necessary improvements. In order to ensure that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Handbooks 2.0 | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...Earthrise,” or other sterile, optimistic names suggested by NASA, the winning name was “Colbert.” Television personality Stephen Colbert had encouraged his fans to write in his last name, even though, as he joked, “Houston may have a problem with...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Making a NASA Themselves | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...allies has become difficult. "It is such a deep divide that there is a risk that NATO will become an irritant for the Americans, rather than a partner of choice," says James Arbuthnot, a British Conservative Party politician who chairs the Parliament's select defense committee. The apparent problem-free warmth between Obama and other NATO leaders over the state of the alliance, he believes, "is an illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan and NATO: Is Europe Up to the Fight? | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...generous." In an interview in Strasbourg, NATO's military committee chairman Giamcampo Di Paolo, an Italian Admiral, told TIME that he is pushing European leaders to allow their troops to engage in combat. Di Paolo says he nonetheless thinks that some of NATO's critics are exaggerating the problem of Europe's military abilities "to try to wake up the Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan and NATO: Is Europe Up to the Fight? | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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