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...before the audience tires of the repetition, or gets exasperated and shouts, "You've been punk'd"? It also has a much larger cast, all of them seemingly graduates of the Off-Hollywood School of Bad Acting. Only Bell, hoarse and recriminating in fine Old Testament God fashion, can summon the depraved grandeur his character requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...beds, undergrads can once again call a housekeeper to their dorm for laundry and room cleaning. While University officials said in 1954 that continued maid service would cost the school $150,000 a year—or about $1.04 million in 2005 dollars—students can now summon a worker to wash their laundry for $19.95. Now fresh and folded clothes join pepperoni pizza and Peking duck among the items that students can have delivered straight to their doors. The student-run start-up DormAid, in its continued effort to compete with the well-established Harvard Student Agencies Cleaners...

Author: By Jennifer Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DormAid Cleans Out Closets | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...know Foley have pointed out that his father was a conservative Catholic and an ex-Marine. They note that his political career didn't take off until he joined the G.O.P., whose position on homosexuality is, roughly, "Don't ask, don't tell." But plenty of gay people summon the strength to be honest with conservative fathers. And Foley won his 2004 race, 68% to 32%. "There's a way he could have [come out]," says Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a nonpartisan gay group. "It's a very different world now, and it is certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Being True to Himself | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...guys - who do not exactly welcome him to their locker room - is heart: the ability to recover from their hits and keep on charging down the field. He spends a lot of time stoically awaiting "The Turk," the assistant coach who visits the players training camp rooms to summon them to the head coach's office for their dismissal. Happily, for him, doom does not come a-knocking at his door. As the movie would have it, Vermeil resists everyone's advice and opts for Papale's spirit over the perhaps greater skills of another player, and Vince makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soft Spot for the Aging Jock | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

...been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as These Golden Years and I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in Taking a Chance on Love, she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Jazz Singers Worth A Listen | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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