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...Major League Soccer (MLS) sank its cleats into the U.S. sports scene as an upstart 10-team league in a nation weaned on a different type of football. But MLS has steadily grown since its inception, and on March 18, the league announced it would award its 17th franchise to Vancouver, which in 2011 will become the second Canadian city to field a club. With its 14th campaign about to kick off, TIME spoke to Commissioner Don Garber about the league's growth, its goals, and its most famous player, David Beckham...
Brian Williams The former volunteer firefighter is the Emmy Award--winning anchor of NBC Nightly News. Barack Obama's election has forever changed the poster of the Presidents in the front of most elementary-school classrooms in the U.S. We have now lived long enough to see historic change in the White House. Converting that into a successful presidency is another matter...
...neighbor in the spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the one who had blown the doors off the Barrymore Theatre in Hurlyburly. The one who'd played Joe Mantegna's foil in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (a role that won him a Tony Award in 1988) and the tortured and outrageous Alan M. Dershowitz in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune...
...Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy honored public broadcasting icon Gwen Ifill with the $25,000 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...news article "Ifill Accepts HKS Journalism Award" incorrectly stated Gwen Ifill received $25,000 with the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. In fact, that award had no prize money. A different award—the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Prize, which went to Washington Post writers Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen—came with...