Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

STAR TREK – INTO DARKNESS (132 minutes) Directed by J.J. Abrams Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana Four years is a long time to wait for a movie sequel – the whole of the original Star Trek television series only ran for three years before cancellation in 1969 – but boy, oh boy, was it worth the wait

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Prince threatens fans who leave show

How did Prince close out South by Southwest Music Festival’s week-long showcase of rock ‘n roll By naturally throwing a totally different kind of party: a grooving, brass band-backed funk fest that stretched to 3am and outlasted many fans lucky enough to get inside the exclusive show that also featured A Tribe Called Quest.

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Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense

Correction Appended: April 16, 2009 For the past several years, I’ve been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life’s exit ramp

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Singapore: Why Lee Kuan Yew Resigned from the Cabinet

From the epochal to the mundane, the decisions of Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew have steered the history of his island nation for more than half a century. But as the political party Lee founded in 1954 seeks to shore up its sliding fortunes with a younger and more politically outspoken electorate, the 87-year-old man regarded as modern Singapore’s founding father has withdrawn from day-to-day governance by quitting his Cabinet post along with Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded Lee as Prime Minister in 1990

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