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Biographical sketch of Galbraith on the Economics Department website. Videos of Galbraith at Harvard's Institute of Politics...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...hawking T shirts and posters, composing original songs ("There has got to be much more to it/ This can't be a movie; no, it's too damn stupid/ Snakes on a Plane!") and posting exquisite fake trailers based solely on the title. The trailers, in particular, began to sketch out fans' expectations for the film. Some were mocking, but the box office doesn't discriminate between money spent ironically and earnestly, and New Line decided to ride the wave rather than be crushed by it. Five days of reshoots were ordered so that Ellis could make the movie much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listening To The Hissing | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Lazy Sunday is similar to the hip-hop--drenched absurdist stuff he and his two friends since junior high school--Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer--had been posting for years on thelonelyisland.com They are the kind of guys who spend very little time debating whether an idea for a sketch--or anything--is worth pursuing. "That's been our attitude from the start, inspired by Akiva," says Samberg. "He's a can-do kind of dude. He says what separates people is that some people talk about doing stuff and some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Outta Narnia | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...sketch group that had never performed sketches anywhere became famous in Los Angeles comedy circles (the three of them lived there until they were hired by SNL and moved to New York City) for eight 3-min. episodes of The 'Bu, a parody of The O.C. in which a troubled ninja kid moves into Malibu. The 'Bu was shown on channel101.com an outlet for unemployed comedy writers and actors. Samberg and his friends actually already had an agent, a pilot deal at Fox for a sketch show (the failed Awesometown) and a job writing for the MTV Movie Awards. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Outta Narnia | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...choose the head of the Rotary. You single out the secretive guy at the end of the block with the off-putting tics, who perhaps has a couple of incidents in his past that will hinder an effective defense. That's not Heil, but it's not a bad sketch of the organization to which she belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ways of Opus Dei | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

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