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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Daily Show, Jon Stewart mistakenly called the film What Happened to the Morgans? Stewart might have asked what happened to romantic comedy, once the crown jewel of Hollywood genres. At best, nothing new; at worst, it died of exhaustion. The Morgans' writer-director, Marc Lawrence, has no special gift for character nuance or witty dialogue. To him, rom-com is simply the recycling of a tired fugitive-couple premise from other bad movies (My Blue Heaven, Witless Protection) and the application of the genre's most formulaic shtick-in-trade: forcing an uncomfortable intimacy on two people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did You Hear How Bad The Morgans Is? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

Students who are on campus have been granted access “by virtue of special petition,” she said. “[It is] considered to be a time to be working...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: J-Term Rules Bar Guests, Parties | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...still haven't found that special something for Grandma, don't fret - you can still sneak in a little last-minute shopping. For procrastinators, UPS may be the carrier of choice - despite a volume spike on Dec. 14, a UPS spokesman told TIME the company doesn't anticipate their shipments to peak until Dec. 21, when they expect to process 22 million packages (a typical day, by contrast, involves only 15 million). And if you really want to push it, major carriers will accept holiday shipping as late as Dec. 23 - two days later than the deadline for first-class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Shipping: How to Beat the Rush | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...will also serve as special assistant to President Drew G. Faust...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Hires Diversity Officer | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...good family; he won't go down that path," says Stewart. This may explain why Zamzam's group apparently didn't set off any alarms in the Virginia Muslim community before their sudden disappearance in late November. At the mosque Zamzam frequented, he seemed to have made no special impression on the imam or his fellow worshippers. Nor did Hasan stand out among the believers at his mosque, near Fort Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Domestic 'Jihadists' Are Educated, Well-Off | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

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