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...Toyota Highlander burst into flames after it swerved across the center line of Route 202 in New Hampshire and collided with a Chevy Malibu, leaving his wife Regina, his mother Helen, and the other driver dead at the scene. Lagakos...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HSPH Professor Dies in Car Crash | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Although the Lions won the first point of the frame, consistent serving from sophomore Christine Wu and Ono Horn set the scene for a steady accumulation of kills from Docter, Fryhofer, and Ingersoll to lift Harvard to an 11-5 advantage. This time, there would be no resurgence on the other side of the net, and the Crimson led by at least four points throughout the set. Sophomore Mikaelle Comrie notched a kill...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Whallops New York Ivies in Road Matches | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...filming technique - in which the handheld camera reacts almost like another character - also lends itself to sitcom wackiness. The opening of its post-Super Bowl episode (a fire drill goes wrong, leading to chaos that includes a cat being thrown through a ceiling panel) was probably the funniest scene on TV this year. (See pictures of cubicle designs submitted by The Office viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...bust: it's the official sitcom of the Great Recession.) And Modern Family, a hilarious new mock-doc on ABC, adapts the style to domestic comedy. When one half of a gay couple blames his weight gain on a nesting instinct spurred by their adoption of a baby, the scene cuts to night-vision-camera footage of him binge-eating in the pantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame. Sometimes the clock spins like mad to show the passing of hours between phenomena - and in one super-creepy scene, there is the image of Katie standing motionless, as if still asleep, for two hours straight. It's even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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