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...himself in dinosaur urine is news for what it didn't achieve. Ferrell, the one familiar star name among the leads in the week's big movies, promoted his film on nearly every media outlet. (Helms told his tooth story on the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.) Yet Land of the Lost was creamed by movies whose top-billed actors are Ed Asner and Bradley Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: The Hangover Throws Up | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...nearly $7 billion by selling new shares of stock. The result: Morgan says those stock sales and other moves will allow the bank to repay all of its TARP funds by the end of June. And Morgan won't be alone. All told, eight of the 19 banks will tell regulators that they plan to pay back their TARP funds in the near future. (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks Hand in Their Stress-Test Plans Today | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Will it work? "It's too soon to tell," she says. "But after we had that sharp decline, we did an urgent appeal to the community, and we got more than 800 contributions in one month--over $152,000. They came with all of these notes from people about how much they cared about the Beck Center. It really made a statement that especially in troubling times, it's important to people to have the release and escape of the arts and an opportunity to dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Crunch: The Recession and the Arts | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...believe every problem has a simple solution, and that solution is usually to do nothing. So I'm fully supporting Vote No on Everything, an organization started by Los Angeles doctor Reed Levine. You can tell this is a serious effort because the website sells T shirts. Levine realized the initiative system was faulty right after he voted for a $10 billion high-speed train and then wondered if $10 billion was a bargain or a rip-off for a high-speed train. His plan appeals to me, since if we vote against everything, our elected officials will be forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on California's State of Insanity | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...them to think you know almost everything to know about them - their families, their friends, their movements - then you've got an advantage," he says. "Because then they're thinking, 'Well, this guy already knows so much, there's no point in resisting ... I might as well tell him everything.'" When Abu Zubaydah tried to conceal his identity after his capture, Soufan stunned him by using the nickname given to him by his mother. "Once I called him 'Hani,' he knew the game was up," Soufan says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Waterboarding: How to Make Terrorists Talk? | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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