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Surrogates, which industry handicappers had touted to win the weekend with a gross in the $20 million-plus range, just didn't have the legs to beat the spread. The new movie's intriguing premise - of a world in which people stay at home while their lifelike robots do all the work - virtually told audiences that this was one to catch, if at all, on DVD. And Willis, except for his fourth dip into the Die Hard franchise two years ago, hasn't come near blockbuster status in the past decade. Reports of friction between the star and his director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Bruce Willis Gets Meatballed | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...wasn't a specific incident? The Republicans and the Right Wing gave permission for all of us to use words we haven't used before: capitalism and socialism. So let's have a discourse. They called Obama a socialist because he told Joe the plumber he wanted to spread the wealth around. Then we had the crash and a month later Bush is talking about the glories of capitalism. I don't' remember in my lifetime where the President starts off a speech says, "And now class, today's topic is capitalism." They started using these words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Why Michael Moore Hates Capitalism | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

...behaves before local school children have a chance to be vaccinated and will continue to do so for a full two weeks afterward while immunized kids build up resistance to the virus. That leaves as much as a month to six weeks during which the flu can continue to spread throughout schools. "It will be interesting to see what will happen over the next month or so," Springer says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead of Schedule, H1N1 Flu Season Arrives in the U.S. | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...funding for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this year by 8 percent and will cut at least another 8 percent the following year, though FAS Dean Michael D. Smith is expecting 12 percent. If Dean Smith is right, that amounts to a 19 percent cut spread out over two years—not much better than the UC system's 20 percent cut for this year...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Higher Ed: At Least We're Not in California | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...H1N1 continues to spread on campus, Harvard researchers have taken on important roles shaping the response to the swine flu outbreak that continues to capture national headlines...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swine Flu Research Takes Hold | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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