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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eminem: The Way I Am | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...room, zero to sixty in a half-second, like audio-electroshock therapy or the first jolt of Beatlemania. It's a release of energy the Disney marketeers have savvily built up since High School Musical made its debut on the Disney Channel in Jan. 2006. The TV movie broke ratings records, and so did its spinoff CD, which was the year's top-selling album in the U.S. Last year's High School Musical 2, also on the Disney Channel, topped that: the CD was #1 in America and the world. But all this was so much seed-sowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Musical 3: The Critic vs. The Kids | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...month ago, one of the Harvard Shuttle buses collided with a biker at 1 a.m. A few weeks later, another shuttle broke down in the middle of the Quad and had to be towed. And recently, one driver erupted in a public tiff with a DHL delivery man who had parked his van slightly in the shuttle’s way. Something is definitely going on with the shuttle these days. “I’ve seen so many ridiculous things happen on the shuttle,” says Sara M. Flood ’10, a Pforzheimer...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shuttle? More Like Shittle! | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...really make a team stick. I think I’ll always like the Red Sox because I was rooting for them in 2003, when I knew I was coming to Harvard, when Aaron Boone took Tim Wakefield deep in the bottom of the 11th of Game 7, and broke Red Sox Nation’s collective heart—again (shout out to my boy Evan O’Brien, who was at that game...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: A Case of No Pain, No Fun | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...want to give you a tax cut sooner so you can save sooner to start your business sooner, because the average plumber starting off sure isn't making $250,000 a year. And the second thing is, plumbers, like everybody else, need customers. And if everybody's broke, you're not going to be able to build your business ... It's a simple principle that we've lost, which is that when everybody's sharing in our prosperity, everybody wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpts from Klein's Interview with Obama | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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