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Because of the history of the awards—the WOY was established in 1951, the MOY in 1963—and the caliber of those who have received it in the past, including Katharine Hepburn, Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks, enticing honorees to Cambridge is “not actually as hard as you might think,” Kruger said. Both Johansson and Stiller will, of course, be on hand to receive the storied Pudding Pot in recognition of their respective honors...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Announces 2007 Woman and Man of the Year | 1/29/2007 | See Source »

...Stone as the narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy. Each hates the other, and one of them, Barnes, is dangerously mad. Their examples, and Chris' rage, will forge the young soldier into a state-of-the-art Stone Age murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Document Written in Blood PLATOON | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series (NBC's May On Wings of Eagles). Says a close Perot friend, Dallas Oilman Tom Meurer: "Ross likes to carry banners where nobody else will." Agrees Perot's sister Bette: "Ross feels you don't manage people, you lead them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need a Rescue? Call Ross | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...really necessarily have all the answers," says Shelbyville High principal Tom Zobel. "But we are working on getting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escaping from Dropout Nation | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...threats. When all those proved false, Bush and the neocons began manufacturing a series of substitute sales pitches to cover the smell of a policy that was rotten from the beginning. Kristol can keep on selling, but, 3,000 U.S. lives and 46 months later, no one's buying. Tom Hitchcock Tilghman, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting More Boots on the Ground | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

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