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...Rensselaer propelled its record to 2-1, a far cry from the 0-3 mark it began its season with last year. A 4-0 shutdown of Union the next night raised the question of whether this season’s team has the talent to reclaim its usual place as a national powerhouse.“This is a good start,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “We want to get the points—the points at the beginning of the season can be just as important...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin and Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: NOTEBOOK: M. Hockey Weathers Tough Slate | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...investors' money. Young Frankenstein is, by contrast, mainly a series of goofs on old horror-movie clichés - gags that don't resonate as well on stage, and that lack the comic propulsion that keeps The Producers moving along. That puts a lot more burden on the usual Brooksian jokes about big knockers and small penises - which, as a result, seem more desperate this time around. The Producers was comedy; Young Frankenstein is shtick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Frankenstein: Monster Mashed | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...Have you been going to the bathroom more than usual?" I asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Surgery Succeeds, But Healing Fails | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...bodies still include officials sympathetic to the militants Islamabad is supposed to be fighting. In the meantime, as Musharraf and Bhutto maneuver for advantage, the extremists in the mountains continue to expand their influence, day by day becoming a more realistic, if fearsome, option to ineffective Pakistani politics-as-usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: The Making of a Crisis | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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