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...senior followed up her third-year campaign with another outstanding season, earning All-American honors for the second straight year with a fifth-place finish in the high jump at the NCAA indoor competition...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP: Jumper Repeats as All-American | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

Eminem •droll ditty about drug-addicted mother of ("I know you're probably tired of hearing 'bout my mom") is highlight of fifth straight number one album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

What was really funny is, the contestant was so relieved when he found out what the word really was - a saddle blanket. My job at that point is to get everybody back on track. I just played the straight man to the hilt. I didn't even crack a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...start of the modern era was particularly good for Italian and American cinema: Italian films took home the award four times straight, from 1966 to 1972, and twice again in 1977-78. Italian-American heavyweights Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, 1976) and Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, 1979) took the glory for the U.S. and even Bob Fosse joined in at the start of the 1980s with All That Jazz. But critics would snipe that truly great films (and directors) were being overlooked: there would be no Cannes love for Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul),Werner Herzog (Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palme d'Or | 5/24/2009 | See Source »

...Between the NYPD's counterterrorism bureau, the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force and a U.S. Attorney's office vastly experienced in national-security issues, "you have a perfect storm of anti-terror efforts in New York, and [the plotters] ran straight into it," Burton says. The city, along with Los Angeles, "has resources comparable to many countries," says James Carafano, a terrorism analyst at the Heritage Foundation. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newburgh 4: 'These Guys Picked the Wrong Town' | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

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