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...personal favorite: it's gotten so bad that during last Sunday's game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can Detroit Go Winless in Today's NFL? | 12/28/2008 | See Source »

President-elect Obama named Harvard physicist John P. Holdren as his chief science adviser, marking the latest in a string of Harvard faculty appointments to Obama's transition team or top advisory positions...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Appoints Harvard Prof As Chief Science Adviser | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

President-elect Obama named Harvard physicist John P. Holdren as his chief science adviser, the Kennedy School announced Friday, marking the latest in a string of Harvard faculty appointments to Obama's transition team or top advisory positions...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Expected To Appoint Harvard Prof. as Chief Science Adviser | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...Directed by Gabriele Muccino and written by Grant Nieporte, Seven Pounds continues a string of movies - The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock - in which Smith's characters are isolated and superior, estranged from normal life, ultimately trying to make contact with ordinary folks. It's been ages since the star flashed his charismatic smile for a whole movie. Here he speaks to people with a precise courtesy that seems learned rather than felt. Pain pulses just behind his fretted eyebrows; he carries himself like a hero too gentlemanly to show his grief, too weighed down to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes Man and Seven Pounds: Santas for Hard Times | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...screenplay of his own devising that is in turn based on a novel that he also wrote. It is hard to think of another film more tightly autobiographical than this one. It's even harder to think of other films that build so gripping a narrative out of a string of comparatively minor and disparate incidents. For its first few minutes The Class threatens to be just as boring as you probably remember high school to have been. But then one girl, previously one of Marin's better students, refuses to read aloud from a book and then angrily refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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