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Adventureland, writer/director Greg Mottola's semiautobiographical ode to the languorous time just before adulthood responsibilities begin, makes you want to ditch your career (if it hasn't already ditched you), don some mildly humiliating uniform and return to the mundane summer job of your youth. Who can argue against cash flow, solidarity with a new peer group and no responsibility more strenuous than remembering who ordered the Sanka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventureland: Rides and Romance in an Uncertain Age | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Young, who also noted that he thought that teacher membership in the commission had been low, added that he would remedy this by reconvening the group this summer and inviting more teachers to participate...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: School Committee Screens Superintendent Candidates | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...Cohen than spying on the members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ratings board - the de facto censorship committee of Hollywood movies - as they recoiled from the backdoor action onscreen and then had to consider saying no to one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the summer? Or, even worse, consider saying yes? Whether or not Baron Cohen had planned to put the scene in the final film, he could have jumped out at the end of the screening shouting, "You've been punk'd!" (See pictures of Kazakhstan at the time of Borat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacha Baron Cohen and the Censors: Will Brüno Be NC-17? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...bubble has finally burst," says one American expat. Some people point to mixed blessings of the financial downturn. Rents, which were at unbearable highs last summer, have now plummeted at least 25%, and property prices are down as much as 50% since August of last year. But while there is some respite from the dawn-to-dusk hammering and drilling that came with Dubai's construction boom, some $8 billion in projects have now been either scrapped or put on hold. The city's notoriously brutal traffic jams have eased somewhat in recent weeks since the reported exodus of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumping on Dubai: Have Hard Times Hit the Emirates? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...cranes leave site here, they leave when construction is finished." A trip down Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai's main thruway, named after the U.A.E.'s founder and first President, reveals thousands of cranes still operating and the first line of the city's metro on track to open this summer. (See pictures of Dubai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumping on Dubai: Have Hard Times Hit the Emirates? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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