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...trouble." By which they mean, not to put too fine a point on it, knocked up. This is not the result of a mad passion for Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). She seems to like him all right, but mostly, we gather, she undertook sex more or less in the spirit of experiment. And because it was just time for her to get that little matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juno: No False Notes | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...guitarist in a rock band. But the chaste attraction that springs up between him and Juno, and his defection from his marriage, which briefly jeopardizes the adoption, turn out to be rather beside the movie's real point, which is to make us admire Juno's unconquerable spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juno: No False Notes | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...airlines charge passengers for services that were once complimentary - food, extra legroom in coach, even checking bags (thanks Spirit Airlines) - JetBlue is about to give us, for free, a brand new perk: e-mail, BlackBerry service and instant messaging from the air. Starting next Tuesday, Dec. 11, the "BetaBlue" Airbus A320 will be trying out the system on its runs between cities like New York and San Francisco for the next six months. It will then be rolled out system-wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BlackBerrys on a Plane | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...conventional sermon-and-worship service and instantly drew thousands of attendees. He has sold hundreds of thousands of books with titles like Velvet Elvis and Sex God that find the sacred in the profane. And he has created a form of video message he calls Nooma (phonetic Greek for spirit or breath) that may make him to YouTube what Graham was to the arena. "He could be one of the most important 21st century Christian leaders," says Bible professor and evangelical blogger Ben Witherington. He and several other thinkers feel that in a "post-Christian America," whose basic assumptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hipper-Than-Thou Pastor | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Furthermore, the letter writers’ claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Against Apathy, Always | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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