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...altitude--say, on a basketball court in Washington--you can breathe easily. 2) Hold extra practice sessions at midnight. 3) Pull pranks on fellow players and dare them to retaliate. "Don't play with a guy who doesn't have a conscience about things," Arenas warns. During a road trip, Arenas filled teammate Andray Blatche's hotel bathtub with coffee. And 4) dream of a post-playing career in advertising. He has strange ideas for commercials for his shoe company, Adidas, whose tagline is "Impossible is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Agent Zero Saved D.C. | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...funds, had more than halved from a high in the 1950s of 1 million. (It is now less than 200,000.) Blair took over the helm of the party in 1994 and with the help of Levy, a self-made multimillionaire who started his fortune managing middle-of-the-road rock bands, began romancing the business community. The strategy paid off handsomely; business rushed to back Blair as his star rose, and his party triumphed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair's Disappearing Act | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

That would be Uncle Sam. Yes, there are purely private jobs in the region: drive among the dense thickets of office buildings in Tyson's Corner and along the Dulles Toll Road, and you see some impressive corporate HQs--Capital One, Freddie Mac, Gannett, Sprint Nextel. But you also come across mysterious acronyms like BAE, CSC, MITRE and SAIC. These are big-time government contractors, and when Fuller looks closely at job growth in the area, it is mainly these that he sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Job Machine | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...jingoistic, but it basically relies upon every post-9/11 fear that Americans have in order to be at all relevant. If this movie were made in 1996, it would have been obviously seen as a “Clear and Present Danger”-style, middle-of-the-road action movie. But now that we live in a world where EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED, this trailer claims to be exciting and timely. Don’t believe the hype. Plus, Jamie Foxx ? Harrison Ford. 300 Celluloid Gold Oh. Ehm. Gee. Imagine the hairiest, burliest, most butch man?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: And the Trailers Keep Coming! | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...episode,” said Koechner. The pair hinted at a partial guest list, including comic Jim Turner, Andy Richter, Neil Flynn from “Scrubs,” and their old touring buddies, Tenacious D. An early episode features guest Will Ferrell challenging Naked Trucker to a road race, then slicing the front tire of his truck before taking off on foot to the finish line. But special guests don’t make a show, and for these two comics, it all comes back to the characters they’ve created. “T-Bones...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comedians Get Nude and Rowdy | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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