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...people making the movie like making jokes about other movies; Smith does that, and so do too many other directors. Early on, there's a scene - even if you haven't seen the movie, you've seen the clip a dozen times - where Paul interrogates a suspect using tough-guy lines from other movies: Heat, Training Day, Jaws, Schindler's List, The Color Purple and finally Willis's own Die Hard. (Willis says, "I've never seen that one.") If the riff is Smith's contribution, it's both a testing and a flattering of his fans, and maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Smith's Cop Out: Too Flabby to Fly | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Despite a tough loss, the Crimson seeks to pull out its first victory of the season on Saturday afternoon at home against Rutgers-Newark...

Author: By Steven T. A. Roach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Winless Streak Reaches Seven | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Creating multiple linked fate communities for the sake of financial recovery will be tough. But if defaulting on a mortgage hurts the local bank, which in turn hurts the local businesses and the community as a whole, then all parties will be much more meticulous when it comes to making financial decisions. Real estate agents who aim to make a profit will have less incentive to be deceptive because they will shop at the same small businesses that will require loans from the local bank to operate, which in turn will require the homeowners to be current on their mortgages...

Author: By Patrick Jean Baptiste | Title: A Global Economy | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...know the government's broken when, in the face of tough fiscal times, the President freezes government spending but gives the military a pass. That's because spending on the military and homeland security, following 9/11 and the launch of two wars in its wake, has become sacrosanct. But it's too bad - because there is plenty of money to be saved by lopping off the well-marbled fat that clings to the $700 billion the U.S. spends annually on national security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Lean Times, Military Spending Still Gets a Pass | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...votes to pass the health reform bill until after she struck a deal with pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak to allow a vote on his amendment that would prohibit plans that cover abortion in an insurance exchange from receiving federal subsidies. The House voted to approve the amendment's tough language, which became part of the final bill. Even so, heading into the health summit, no one - from the White House on down - knows whether abortion will still be an obstacle to passing a reform bill. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Abortion Still Sink Health Care Reform? | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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