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...political movies were mowed down by audience indifference. Oscar-winning actors could not lure moviegoers to see Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah or Rendition; viewers figured the films were a cross between a harangue and homework. Not many more people came when producers tried crossbreeding hot-spot intrigue with familiar genres. The Kingdom, a Jamie Foxx action picture set in Saudi Arabia, and Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks in an upbeat comedy about Afghanistan, earned the stars some of their lowest box-office numbers in years. Americans, urged by their President to defeat the terrorists...
...problem with other touchscreen-based phones, says Lazaridis, is that "there's no tactile response - they mix navigation with confirmation." When you try to click a Web link on the iPhone, for example, it's all too easy to accidentally tap the wrong spot and launch the link that was just above or below the one you really wanted. That wastes time, and is especially annoying on a wireless device, whose battery life is precious...
...watched the sketch on mute. When I tried a similar tactic with the trailer for “An American Carol,” David Zucker’s new film parody of Michael Moore, I thoroughly enjoyed the visual likeness to the filmmaker, which seemed to me spot on. It wasn’t until I reprised the trailer with sound that I realized that it was a not-so-subtle conservative “spoof” on liberal ideas that featured racial, religious, and sexual stereotypes and unabated nationalistic symbolism.That viewing got me thinking about what went...
Economics professor Edward Glaeser, an expert in urban economics, found a potential bright spot in the current crisis. He suggested that the decline in housing prices—a market in which he does not “think we’re close to the bottom”—has made home ownership more affordable...
...students experience a campus in New England, often much of the day the sun is down, or low. Our intent was to make the building like a lantern—glowing during the night.” Night or day, the Northwest Science Building promises to be a bright spot in the Harvard architectural landscape.—Crimson staff writer Lee Ann W. Custer can be reached at lcuster@fas.harvard.edu...