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...lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger in A Mighty Wind (2003), an unctuous lawyer on Showtime's The L Word (2005), a guidance counselor with a past in Role Models (2008) and Julia Child's sister in a critically acclaimed turn opposite Meryl Streep in last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

NJIT came out in the second set a completely different team. Due to a slew of Harvard errors, the Highlanders racked up a 12-point lead, and they never looked back, winning...

Author: By James Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Close Losses End Season for Crimson | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...largest country. Already, the crisis in Darfur has claimed some 300,000 lives, while 2 million have died in a half-century of civil war between Sudan's north and south. Those numbers may have persuaded the international community to subordinate democracy to the cause of peace, but a slew of opposition groups withdrew from the presidential election ahead of the poll - citing repression and the expectation of vote-rigging - leaving no serious challengers to the incumbent, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. In the upside-down world of Sudanese politics, it was the party that fought hardest for democracy that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan's Flawed Vote: Re-Elect an Indicted Ruler | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...added that a slew of similar norovirus-like illnesses have been reported in the greater Boston area but that there have not been any such reports from other Harvard dining areas...

Author: By Ekene I. Agu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second Norovirus Outbreak Shuts Faculty Club | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...Harris senior vice president who oversaw the survey. Another newcomer: Goldman Sachs, which made the list for the first time, at No. 56, four spots from the bottom. "Here's a company that members of the public would never interact with suddenly on the list," says Fronk. Credit a slew of bad press about Goldman having its hand in everything from AIG's bailout to the flailing financial state of Greece. (See how Americans are spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Companies Do People Respect Most? | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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