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...doomed as the Japanese men who make a last stand in the caves of Iwo Jima. And the conflict they're caught up in may be as futile as the one Americans are wrestling with in 2007. But Sherriff's great play has no truck with anything as lofty as patriotism or sacrifice or even conscience. After it's all over, the bacon is still frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Back to the Trenches | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...doomed as the Japanese men who make a last stand in the caves of Iwo Jima. And the conflict they're caught up in may be as futile as the one Americans are wrestling with in 2007. But Sherriff's great play has no truck with anything as lofty as patriotism or sacrifice or even conscience. After it's all over, the bacon is still frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Trenches | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

More than 10 years ago, a retired truck driver named Teri Horton bought a painting for $5 at a yard sale. The purchase became exceptional when a friend suggested that it might be a work by Jackson Pollock and the international art community took notice. Even more exceptional, however, was the method used to authenticate it.While art scholars argued over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock?...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Potentially Pollock? | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...lying” that one might wonder if this album was simply one grand emotional vent. The first single off the album, “Not Capable of Love,” (its music video features Roe running over pedestrians in a pick-up truck), starts with a promising punch, but goes nowhere special. What the album really lacks is an element of surprise. After a few seconds of listening, it is pretty obvious where each song is going. “New Year’s Day” for instance, sounds like Matchbox 20 pop, but without...

Author: By James F. Collins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Ataris - "Welcome the Night" (Sanctuary Records) | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...first rail link to Tibet. The $3.7 billion railway, the world's highest, crosses a 16,500-foot pass and has pressurized cars so that passengers can withstand the altitude. The route also makes moving raw materials from the province, which once would have had to been done by truck over high mountain roads, potentially affordable. "The railway has given this economic reality," says a mining lawyer who asked not to be named. "I mean, they can actually access these places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Strip-Mine Shangri-La | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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