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...represent the smallest amount of star wattage. Maybe that's why they seem marginally more real than the rest of the celebrity wax fruit that adorns He's Just Not That Into You. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston play Neil and Beth, a couple who have been together for seven years. Neil still doesn't want to get married. For this, he is banished to live in unwashed squalor on his 44-ft. sailboat. I don't know about Neil the character, but Affleck the actor doesn't seem to mind much. His attitude toward this movie is roughly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Just Not That Into You, and Neither Are We | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

After watching the swearing-in of our 44th President, I felt as though eight years of oppression had been lifted off my shoulders [Feb. 2]. Over the past seven years, I have lost my pension, have taken two pay cuts and every year pay more for health insurance. Please, let there be hope. Deborah Schlegel, WASHINGTON, IOWA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Fertility clinics are round-the-clock operations, with women coming and going seven days a week for estrogen-monitoring and egg retrieval. The weekend after a California woman gave birth to octuplets, traffic was steady at the Duke Fertility Center in Durham, N.C. Susannah Copland, who oversees Duke's in vitro fertilization (IVF) program, was on call and noticed that "everyone was buzzing about the octuplets." Some patients were shocked, others unnerved. "I don't want eight babies," they told her. "And we don't want you to have eight babies," she responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethics of Octuplets | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...clips are exceptionally well chosen. For the uninitiated, there's the famous "seven dirty words" routine (the seven still bleeped, of course), and his still audacious routines on religion and death. But there are also generous helpings of early bits from his short-hair days (cracking up Johnny Carson with his Hippy Dippy Weatherman) and rareties like Carlin sitting at the piano on Arsenio Hall's show, accompanying himself in a rendition of "Cherry Pie" - as well as a generous helping of his playful but pointed riffs on language, like his account of the progress of military jargon from "shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: The Long Goodbye | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...backhand past Hoyle.The next Terrier power play was successfully killed thanks in part to a sprawling save by Hoyle, and neither team found another opening the rest of the period to set up the memorable finish.After having outshot BU 9-7 in the first period, Harvard managed only seven shots to the Terriers’ 17 in the second.—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Dogs Down Crimson by Goal | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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