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...dragged by their ears to see this movie may be surprised; besides the romance, there's a trio of bad vamps who wreak havoc, and a fast-moving game of vampire baseball. "The teenage girls are the early adapters, but that doesn't mean the train will stop," says Hardwicke. "Besides, young guys are smart enough to go where there are a lot of hot young girls." After all, a love affair with a fictional vampire will have to end someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight: The Fangirls Cometh, with Cash | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...channels - Top Gear regularly pulls in more than 7 million viewers, roughly a quarter of all Britons watching TV during the program's Sunday-night slot. Chalk that up to the show's high speed and high production values: crazy challenges and outlandish races - an Aston Martin versus a train between England and Monte Carlo, for instance (the Aston won) - are, like the rest of the show, beautifully shot and edited. Add in the bickering, bantering, male-but-not-macho presenters, and Top Gear has "touched something in the zeitgeist," says Steve Hewlett, a former British TV exec turned media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Gear's Road to Riches | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA—Five times this season Harvard football has had its back to the wall, and four times the Crimson’s miracle train has kept on chugging.Other than the week two loss at Brown, Harvard has managed to come up with big play after big play to secure unbelievably close victories.Saturday’s win was no different.The game-sealing interception with less than 15 seconds left saved Harvard from many things, not the least of which was losing an Ivy League title shot next weekend against Yale—a sort of redemption after...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Crimson Escapes Once Again | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

Ride the Rails. VIA Rail Canada is determined to tempt you aboard its long-haul train with 50% rebates if you book your tickets online before Dec. 11. If you have the free time, the "Canadian" route, for instance, departs Toronto, passes through the prairies and the Rockies and ends at Canada's Pacific coast five days later. VIA Rail promises down duvets in your sleeper, local wines to sip in the observation car, regional menus in the dining car and attentive staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Teeny, Tiny NYC Hotel Rooms for $99 | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...comically knee-jerk explanation for terror attacks - they have been blamed on Islamist fundamentalists aided by "foreign elements," meaning mostly Pakistan and China. Even where the majority of victims have been Muslims - such as the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the attack on an Indo-Pak train in February 2007 and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhi's Jama Masjid - the first murmurs of suspicion have named Islamist groups. Investigation trails in these cases have led nowhere, yet no one has dared ask if non-Muslims, or more specifically, Hindu fundamentalists, could be responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Terror Arrests Shock Nation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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