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...average of $181 million in inflation-adjusted terms and earned a collective profit of $1.2 billion. And Nemesis is better--darker, more surprising--than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star Trek Inc. | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...billion - nearly 30% of it from loyal crew members overseas, particularly in the U.K. and Germany. And Nemesis is better - darker, more surprising - than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies - fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items - still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek Inc. | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...More people are going to be here because it’s at Harvard, so we just have to suck it up and pay it,” said Kirkland House committee chair Angela M. Salvucci...

Author: By Romina Garber and Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Thumbing Noses at Keg Ban, Students Still Plan To Party | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...Boston, the full moon, the telescope domes and some mild cloud cover all worked against the stargazers. The relative lack of meteors, combined with the cold and the early hours fueled quite a bit of griping. One student joked, “I think when meteor showers start to suck they should just set off fireworks to please me.” Jonas A. Budris ’06 had a more resigned attitude, “I’m starting to feel like Jack from Titanic—you just have to let go.” Later...

Author: By Jacob A. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Waiting for a Star to Fall | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...liked a particular phrase on their website: “Turn off TV and turn on Life.” Even when life consists of a paper due in 14 hours, a thesis due in 14 weeks and a crazy roommate, television is not the perfect antidote. It will suck you in and spit you out with a whole new value system, complete with an unnatural desire for a new hair color...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Must-Flee TV | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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