From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Australia Bombs at File-sharing Box Office [Hollywood]

Australia Bombs at File-sharing Box Office [Hollywood]

Australia: the movie too bad to pirate online. [IMDB]




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Four science journalism groups protest CNN cuts

Four science journalism groups protest CNN cuts
CJR.org
“The wholesale dismantling of the science unit calls into question CNNs commitment to bringing the most informative …

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On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
A worry shadows the forthcoming Tom Cruise thriller Valkyrie. The worry is that, upon …

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Paradigm lost

Paradigm lost
THE DEEPENING ECONOMIC downturn has been hard on a lot of people, but it has been hard in a particular way for economists. …

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The struggle to come to terms with Marxism was central to the New York critics’ intellectual formation. It is no accident that the few older writers who still practice a broad-gauge criticism, most notably Terry Eagleton, Clive James and Christopher Hitchens, have all had extensive business with that ideology, or that its disappearance has coincided with a diminishment of critical possibility.

The struggle to come to terms with Marxism was central to the New York critics’ intellectual formation. It is no accident that the few older …

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[H]e writes about literature as if our souls depended on it, which, for any serious reader, they do. For Wood, literature is truth, or as close as we’re going to get to it in a world without God.

[H]e writes about literature as if our souls depended on it, which, for any serious reader, they do. For Wood, literature is truth, or as …

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New York Times to launch "Instant Op-Ed" feature

New York Times to launch “Instant Op-Ed” feature
Editor & Publisher
The Times will begin posting immediate viewpoints on breaking news starting in January, says …

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Get Dumped? Blame You’ve Got Mail

Get Dumped? Blame You’ve Got Mail
Researchers in Edinburgh claim that watching too many romantic comedies can lead to “unrealistic expectations” in real-life relationships. Fans …

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