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...Candy and Eugene Levy. The series introduced the stereotypical, "eh"-saying Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, played with aplomb by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis. The McKenzie brothers hosted The Great White North, a commentary show with topics ranging from Canada's geography to tutorials on how to trick beer companies into giving you a free case by stuffing a mouse in a bottle. The McKenzie brothers went on to star in commercials for Pizza Hut and, not surprisingly, Molson, North America's oldest brewery. (See SCTV in the 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...taken it all sitting down. Amazingly, each and every day has gotten worse: humiliating text messages, allegations of bedding porn stars and prostitutes. And amazingly, Woods never punched back, leaving reasonable people to wonder whether it's all true. Now, employing the media spinmeister's trick of dumping news late on Friday afternoon, Woods has admitted on Dec. 12 to "infidelity" (ah, that's what he meant by his original confession of "transgressions") and announced on his website that he's going to stop playing golf for a while. Tiger is in retreat. The fight will come another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Golf Survive Without Tiger Woods? | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

...particularly impressive trick, in which Wright made a lime appear under a cup, one Pfoho resident shouted “How did that just happen?! That was amazing...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfocus Pocus | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...does Examiner.com's fairly superficial posts on the big stories of the day often end up near the front of Google News' queue? "It's not a trick," says Blair. "We have almost 25,000 writers posting 3,000 original articles per day." Examiners take seminars on writing headlines, writing in the third person and making full use of social media, all of which are Google manna. But Blair thinks it's mostly the scale of the operation that makes Examiner.com articles so attractive to search engines, from which more than half of the site's traffic comes. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Does Google Search Love Examiner.com? | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

Which led my husband to pose the question to our daughters, What would Jesus watch? That in turn led to an intriguing--and useful--conversation around our dinner table. It's the oldest teacher's trick, better to show than tell: the Sermon on the Mount was clean and clear, but Jesus also offered parables, little mysteries to unwrap and examine for their coded messages. This is a delivery device especially good for teenagers building their rebellious muscles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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