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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they insist voters want in the 21st century. For the camp that includes South Carolina's Mark Sanford, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and Texas' Rick Perry, the legislation is a federal leviathan that lets them display faithfulness to the roots of the GOP as a Big Government slayer. "Rather than devote an unprecedented number of dollars to expanding government," Perry said last week, "they should stimulate the economy with something that actually works: tax cuts." (Read about what is a stimulus and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Governors: Split over Obama's Stimulus Plan | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

Writer-producer Joss Whedon has played with the conventions of monster stories (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), space sagas (Firefly) and comic books (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog). Now, with Dollhouse (Fox, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), he tries dystopian sci-fi. Echo is not a slave, technically; she goes to the Dollhouse after having run into unspecified trouble as an idealistic college grad named Caroline. The deal: if she becomes an active, the company makes her problem go away--along with all her memories. The threads running through this ambitious serial: Who was she? And what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dollhouse: Who Does Joss Whedon Think He Is? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...prog screed that Yes forgot to record; “Better,” the album’s second single, sounds like a Styx track with extra bleating; “Catcher in the Rye” is a bad cover of a lost Dispatch tune; and Slayer would have at least had fun with “Shackler’s Revenge,” a ridiculous approximation of thrash metal. Rose and Caram Costanzo produced the album, apparently doing little more than turning up the volume on every track. “Chinese Democracy?...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guns N' Roses | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Well, I'm honored you would say that. And yes, Stewart and Colbert have been brilliant and devastating. And Letterman and Olbermann and Maher. Even Wolf Blitzer has been funny lately. Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Michael Moore | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I can summarize almost every plotline in detail. I’ve watched every episode of the more recent, and wildly underhyped, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a handful of times, and every episode of Arrested Development at least a dozen. If, for some reason, you still think you’re more TV-obsessed than I am, I invite you to visit www.twitter.com/Chuck_Bass.

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Couch Potato | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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