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...launch vehicle to the silver screen. Scott Porter (“Friday Night Lights”) plays the dashing Tommy Fielding, who looks to the audience like a high school senior doing his internship at a Wall Street firm, but whom the film helpfully tells us is actually a stock broker there. Painted from the start as “the good guy” in a depraved world full of cut-throats and egotists, Fielding is dating the lovely Beth Vest (Alexis Bledel of “Gilmore Girls” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Good Guy | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...that Fuqua never makes effective use of the film’s actual New York location, excluding several overhead shots of the projects. In fact, the only neighborhood in Brooklyn mentioned in the entire film is Bedford-Stuyvesant, and that is only in passing. On top of using essentially stock characters in the script, Fuqua does nothing to give the film any legitimate New York feel...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brooklyn's Finest | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...conspicuous shortcomings of the album come on tracks that are limited by a rap vocabulary. “Sweepstakes,” which features Mos Def, contains the album’s only mention of stock hip-hop figures, as the rap star confidently spits, “There’s rappers and dealers and players and me / They say that they’re winners / Okay, well let’s see.” Not only are these rhymes depressingly conventional, but worse, they cast the beats in the background, thereby preventing the best aspect...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gorillaz | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...make a slow circuit of the Bird's Nest stadium suspended from a wire. Even though he was wearing Adidas clothing as he did so, Li's name was nonetheless introduced to an estimated billion TV viewers, many of whom subsequently learned of his eponymous brand. The company's stock price jumped 5% in the week that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow the Leaders | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...more cautionary note, however, is that Bush never solved these problems, which plagued him from his earliest months in the White House until the day he left. Candidate Obama's repudiation of Bush's eight-year presidency was focused on his predecessor's ideology. He should have taken stock of Bush's executive process as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Making the Same Mistakes as Bush | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

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