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...child could predict what happens: Fred will learn the spirit of Christmas from his bro, and he'll use his street smarts to help Santa survive in the modern age. And if I were to tell you that, before going to the North Pole, Fred befriends a young black kid from an orphanage... But no, it's all too painfully predictable. Halfway through the movie, I gave up hoping it would display a modicum of logic, a sentence of sense, a subordinate clause of sanity. Besides, as Chico Marx so acutely observed, "There ain't so sanity clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard. His first, “Funny Ha Ha” (2005), which was hailed as “one of the top 10 films of the year” by the Boston Phoenix, earned him the “Someone to Watch” Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.Bujalski has a different perspective on VES’s place at Harvard. “I felt a little under the radar from the Harvard community at large,” he says. “But I found great freedom in that.”The VES department...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello and Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: LIFE AFTER VES | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Newt Gingrich Former Speaker of the House and a co-author of A Contract with the Earth, a book on environmentalism There are moments when courage and commitment change the human spirit. After decades of tolerating a brutal dictatorship, the Burmese monks are reminding us that the love of freedom is universal. Their willingness to die for the freedom of others should lead us to want to live for those same beliefs. They have given the world an inspiring vision of hope and determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...clan, see how our hopes ferment, our kids grow and ripen. Little sister wears big sister's Easter dress from two years ago, and you suspect she's going to end up taller. The cub scouts in the annual Memorial Day parade are eagles now. So in the spirit of holiday acceleration, let's make some early New Year's resolutions: no costume purchases in September, no holly before Halloween. Ignore the campaign as long as possible: its season will come in due course. Let's not rush but savor the holidays one by one and preserve their power, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merry Hallowmas | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...even more persuasively for the value of the green roof: the psychological boost that city dwellers can gain simply by having a quiet place to go, far above the churn of the streets. As so often happens, what's good for the planet can also be good for the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need to Weed Your Roof? | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

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