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...financial center so long as there is no place for investment bankers to celebrate their deals by popping champagne corks. Most global professionals don't want to live in a country where alcohol is illegal and women can't drive. Despite its present problems, they're more likely to stick with Dubai, which launched a $1 billion financial-services center in 2004, and where you can openly practice whatever faith you choose, including nightclubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Dubai | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Alley Bero put the puck on Vanessa Emond’s stick, and Emond wrapped around behind the net to get the puck past an out-of-position Bellamy...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last-Minute Penalty Shot Caps Harvard Comeback, Crimson Keeps Pace in ECAC | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...love Big Love. I love how it extended the standard HBO series premise - "They're a family... of mobsters, of Roman emperors, of vampires... who fight and stick together like any other family" - into the social and political saga of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), an ordinary guy in suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

...difference between Hollywood and European films: the first has to keep you jazzed every minute, while the second assumes that, having bought your ticket, you'll stick around through the simmering accumulation of details. In that sense, The Ghost Writer is as comforting in its temperate pace and eerie mood as it is chilling in its plot particulars. Polanski feigns interest in the genre's requisite chases, but he's best at stranding the Ghost in wide frame, on a turbulent island, and tightening the noose around his neck as he gets closer to an awful truth. Alexandre Desplat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...officials like to take late-night trips to Sochi House, where the Russians are partying hard and promoting the 2014 Olympics, which they will be hosting. Several suits have asked volunteer drivers to wait past midnight for a ride and then complained when the volunteers went home rather than stick around for the tipsy bigwigs. (In fairness, the manager did say that this same group of IOC officials gave away 50 event tickets to the volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Would Anyone Want to Be an Olympic Volunteer? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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