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...ease with his natural appeal - his Georgeness - that he needn't rev up or Method up a performance to screaming volume. After all, he came out of TV, where the goal is to be ingratiating, not from the stage or indie films, where the goal is threefold: sulk, simmer and explode. Clooney glides and purrs through his movies (and his public appearances) with a grace both manly and feline. He's a man's man and a woman's; and I know a few frustrated Democrats who say that, if he'd run for President, he'd be their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean's Thirteen: Dead in the Water | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Although other institutions separate disciplinary cases from academic ones, Gross posits that there is merit to maintaining the threefold function of the College’s Ad Board...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reevaluating The Ad Board | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...September with tribal leaders in North Waziristan, the Pakistani government agreed to scale down its operations in the area if local militants would refrain from attacking government troops and would end cross-border raids into Afghanistan. On that front, the agreement has clearly failed - cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to U.S. military officials. Many of those have been bomb attacks on government officials and police officers in provincial capitals such as Khost. Last year, Hajji Muslim was nearly killed by a remote-detonated IED that blew apart his car and left him with chunks of shrapnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Among the Taliban Bombers | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...expensive commodity as equitably as possible.” Berman’s remarks come in the wake of a new initiative launched by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) to combat illegal file sharing on college campuses. With the initiative, the organization is trying to respond to a threefold jump in RIAA warning notices sent to universities this academic year, according to an RIAA press release. “Many schools have turned a blind eye to piracy,” Berman said in his statement. The extent of Harvard’s enforcement currently involves forwarding RIAA warning...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harsher Penalties Sought for Piracy | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...offered them greater sovereignty in exchange for promising to kick out foreign militants. Musharraf called the agreement a success and promised President George Bush at the time that "there won't be a Taliban and there won't be an al-Qaeda." However, cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to Coalition forces on the Afghan side, and two weeks ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the situation as a "disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taliban Message to Cheney | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

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