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...been the entire season. As the New York Times noted, “if even a small fraction of the…viewers who flocked to Mr. O’Brien’s show last week had turned up regularly in his earlier ratings results, he would almost surely still be hosting...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Nice Guys Finish Last | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Kidnap Victim Revisits Her Cellar Prison | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...University announced Friday the establishment of a fund for employees whose families have been affected by the earthquake that struck Haiti almost two weeks...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Affected Employees To Receive Grants | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...heard that the Economics 1630: "Economics of Sports and Entertainment" class was packed to almost outside the front door. However, the professor was very old and whispered when he talked, so every time the door opened, no one in the room could hear...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day Three: Easy Fourths | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

...driver and I left the petroleum announcement and headed back toward the Hamra Hotel, we saw a dusty cloud rising deep in the neighborhood to our right. "Perhaps a mortar into the Green Zone," he suggested. We tried to find out but the phones were already jammed. We had almost arrived at the rear access road to the Hamra when the second bomb exploded, near the Babylon Hotel. We had driven by it just minutes before, and our car jumped. We sped closer to the rear checkpoint of the Hamra compound, where the security guards were already out in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Middle of the Baghdad Hotel Attacks | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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