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  • What It Was Like To Be A Wall Street Recruit After The Bailouts
    A reporter shadowed eight young people during their first two years on Wall Street, when the bailouts were still fresh and anti-Wall Street sentiments were running high.
  • Book News: Byline Tally Shows There's Still Gender Bias In Book Reviewing
    Also: Ghostwriter says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange "simply couldn't bear" having his autobiography written; the best books coming out this week.
  • Undermanned And Limited, Chemical Safety Board Confronts A Crisis
    The lead federal agency investigating the West Virginia chemical leak is one that most Americans have probably never heard of. The Chemical Safety Board is an independent body, modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane crashes and the like. But critics say that the Chemical Safety Board is understaffed, underfunded and takes too long to finish its investigations, and that its non-binding recommendations are often ignored anyway.
  • Shirley Temple Black Dies At 85
    One of the most famous childhood stars of all times, Shirley Temple Black has died. Remembered for her curls and acting talent, she became the face of hope during the Great Depression.
  • Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is a Detroit cop brought back from the brink of death — as a cyborg supercop built for reducing crime and increasing profit.
    'RoboCop' Remake, As Mechanical As Its Cyborg Hero
    Director José Padilha's RoboCop reboot surpasses the 1987 original in some important ways: the acting is vibrant, and the politics robust are and nuanced. But there's little warmth behind the metallic sheen.
  • Canada's E.J. Harnden delivers the rock during a curling training session in Sochi. "We like to think of ourselves as athletes now and not just curlers," he says.
    Canadian Athletes Pumped To Show The Fitter Side Of Curling
    The men's team is stacked, built — whatever you call it, their biceps are busting out of their shirt sleeves. And it's not just the Canadians; the world's elite curlers are extremely fit.
  • Comedian Ages With Humor — And Effort
    In her new book of essays, I See You Made an Effort, comedian Annabelle Gurwitch muses on middle-aged life. Critic Heller McAlpin says that the book, infused throughout with "sharp wit," is hilarious.
  • From President To Fugitive — In The Span Of A Week
    The new authorities in Kiev are trying to consolidate power and capture former President Viktor Yanukovych. Meanwhile, demonstrators in parts of eastern Ukraine are supporting closer ties with Moscow.
  • <em>Game of Thrones</em>' Kit Harington plays a gladiator who finds love, friendship and vengeance — all in one fateful weekend — in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
    'Pompeii': In Ancient Rome, A Hot 3-D Mess
    Even for an action flick that promises more thrills and gore than depth and nuance, Pompeii throws plausibility to the wind. The result is a flaming collision of romance, friendship and vengeance.
  • Luminiţa Gheorghiu plays an overbearing (and overdressed) Bucharest matron in <em>Child's Pose, </em>Romania's foreign-film entry at this year's Oscars.
    Another Monster Mother, But Hey, She Means Well
    The Romanian entry in the foreign-film Oscar category turns on a nouveau-riche mother who maneuvers ruthlessly to shield her no-account son from charges he kills a teen in a car crash.
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