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...complete with a cheesy black-and-white freeze-frame of Jack and Meg waltzing at the end of the show. Any of these threads, if fully pursued, could have made an interesting movie, but Malloy’s attempt to encompass all of them results in a fractured and meaningless film, no more enjoyable than a series of White Stripes YouTube clips watched consecutively...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The White Stripes | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...East teams would have qualified for a 96-team tournament. So you would think that a guy like Gavitt would be pushing hard for a larger field. However, knowing that such a scenario would render the Big East regular season and conference tournament practically meaningless, he's hesitant to approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NCAA Mulls Expanding March Madness. Are They Mad? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...however, is what kind of referendum it would be - one that calls for independence outright, or one that asks a more veiled question. Many Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, say that doesn't matter - they see the mere act of holding a referendum as an intentional provocation. "It's meaningless in its substance," said Kurt Bassuener, of the Democratization Policy Council, a U.S.-based democracy advocacy group. "But the act is very meaningful." The Bosnian war, in fact, was sparked by a referendum on independence from Yugoslavia that was overwhelmingly supported by Bosniaks and Croats, but boycotted by Serbs. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia's New Threat: Not Bombs, But a Referendum | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...cooking and making a Mortal Kombat-style tournament seems, at least on its surface, patently insane. (The original Japanese Iron Chef took this as a given, and presented the contests as the whim of a wealthy madman.) If you've ever participated in a cook-off, you know how meaningless the scoring is, how opaque and arbitrary the judges' standards are, how random and unpredictable the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...news, Reid's surprise was not exactly embraced by Dems across the board. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted coolly, saying only that she "looks forward to reviewing the Senate proposal." The New York Times editorial board panned Reid's substitute bill as "pathetic" and "so puny as to be meaningless." Governors and mayors who were hoping for more money to ease their strained budgets were disappointed - even the Democratic ones. "It's a shock to us," Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, told Fox News on Friday. "I mean, in the states we were all hoping to see a robust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Harry Reid Yanked the Jobs Bill | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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