Peter Morgan's compelling stage piece plays like a thriller in Ron Howard's hands. Ron Howard is celebrating his 50th year in show business, and if you learn anything in that span, it's not to mess with a good thing. In "Frost/Nixon," the veteran director smoothly demonstrates the value of that attitude, taking a silk purse of a project, making it even silkier and producing perhaps the best ...

4 Dec 2008

Jermaine Dixon -- talk about a 'glue man' -- he fits in everywhere and clearly reminds me of Jaron Brown. It looks as though he's been a Pitt Panther for 3 years - not 3 weeks. Are his true strengths in flexibility and adaptability or does he have additional upside as well? Could he become a 20+ scorer as a senior? All in all, I'm impressed. I think we've found our final missing piece for a trip ...

4 Dec 2008

Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.

4 Dec 2008

Women keep their favourite piece of clothing on average for longer than the length of many marriages according to a survey.

4 Dec 2008

"If ever there was a case for unvarnished sex education in public schools, the ongoing AIDS epidemic in black America ought to be it," columnist Courtland Milloy writes in a Washington Post opinion piece, adding, "[H]ow can we teach [HIV prevention] if we can't talk frankly?" Milloy writes that he is "focusing on women and AIDS ...

4 Dec 2008

When most people think of 20th-century American composer Aaron Copland, their thoughts invariably turn to famous works such as "Rodeo," "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for the Common Man." Rarely do they start tapping out the lively Scherzo movement of Copland's "Symphony for Organ and Orchestra," and it's not likely they would, given how seldom the piece is performed.

4 Dec 2008