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This is a catchy sentence designed to make you read the following article. It will be followed by something slightly off-putting, like "Want to watch a video that features a special-needs child with a trendy, topical disease?" No need to be offended, though, for this next sentence explains the off-putting remark, and that special-needs child is one of the stereotypical movie characters featured in A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made - a Cracked.com video produced by the comedy duo Britanick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...American Pastoral” is my favorite novel of all time, and Theo grossly oversimplified a very small portion of it. Philip Roth does anything but portray the American Dream and suburban life as a straightforward, dismal existence. Perhaps if the reviewer had read further, he would have appreciated the Swede’s reaction to his daughter blowing up the local post office. Roth definitely explores the “inner and outer lives of the father and [daughter],” for which Theo praises Cormac McCarthy...

Author: By EVA GILLIS-BUCK | Title: LETTERS: Get Some Book Smarts | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

Instead of sensing an “aftertaste of tired irony,” I was deeply affected by Roth’s novel and have reflected on it for years after my first reading. Coincidently, I began to read McCarthy’s “The Road” and never finished it; however, I would never write a review without completing it. Give “American Pastoral” a chance and don’t be so lazy...

Author: By EVA GILLIS-BUCK | Title: LETTERS: Get Some Book Smarts | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...reaction to the menu changes has been mostly positive, according to Airo Farulla. But he said, “One guy looked at the menu board and said, ‘It’s like doing a math calculation to read the menu!’” Our recommendation: avoid the bean counting and just...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boloco Changes its Menu | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...punch another player in the face," says Gossage. "The rule in racing is that this is O.K. There are just different standards and codes and things like that." But Gossage admitted, "I understand how outrageous this appears to folks who don't follow the sport." (Read a Q&A with Jimmie Johnson on breaking NASCAR records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Ratings Woes Making NASCAR Too Reckless? | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

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