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...TIME Europe editor William Green, an avid investor in out-of-favor stocks, has money with Third Avenue, but not in its real estate fund

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reasons to be Cheerful | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...first look at next year's Oscar finalists, attracts audiences to the big-ticket galas and special presentations. It also lures a sizable number of other power brokers: Hollywood execs, for whom Toronto has become a crucial harbinger of the movie-award season, and U.S. film critics, avid to see grown-up pictures after a fast-food summer diet of action epics with numerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Directors | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...reading is as much a source of enjoyment for avid Potter fans as reading for the first time—Duncan has read each of the books between two and four times, and even Tatar confesses to re-reading the fifth book this summer...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Last Trip On The Hogwarts Express | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

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