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...entire cast of “Arrested Development,” but here all he gets is Dennings’ anemic portrayal of Norah. While her character is very poorly developed, one would have hoped Dennings might have injected at least some life into the rich-girl-trying-to-be-normal stereotype. In fact, director Peter Sollett leaves pretty much all of his characters flat and uninteresting. Tris is a vacuous hottie who only wants Nick when he doesn’t want her. Norah’s friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) is a drunken mess whose antics provide many...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Japan, once the world's biggest donor nation, is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency that will dispense billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, most of it bound for Africa and Asia - regions where China is rapidly increasing its clout as an aid donor and commercial partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan to Dispense Billions in Foreign Aid | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...first time in one gallery, are the centerpiece of "Rothko," a quietly devastating show of his late work running at London's Tate Modern. By the time he made them, Rothko was at the height of his powers as an artist. He was also a favorite among rich collectors, which didn't sit well with him. Were the moneymen buying his beckoning fogbanks of color simply because they found them decorative? Possibly; that may be one reason why, in 1957, his palette darkened. Nothing about a glowering picture like Four Darks in Red, completed in 1958, suggests it was painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Rothko: Art of Darkness | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...will be next to Rich Losick’s, and he taught me intro bio when I was an undergraduate,” Mango said...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mango Named MCB Professor | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Yankee Stadium is a cathedral of baseball, then Shea is an austere Buddhist shrine, lacking in ornamentation or opulence but rich in meaning. This makes its unfriendly confines well-suited to the Mets fan, who, like a Buddhist, accepts the inevitability of suffering as something doctrinal. Unlike Yankees fans, spoiled off the fat of 26 world championships, supporters of the Mets know that neither life nor stadiums are always pretty...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe and Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Et In Our Stadia Ego | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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