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After the waterway was carved out of wetlands in the 1860s, oil refineries, tanneries and chemical plants moved in and spewed noxious waste into the canal, where it mixed with raw sewage. Before long, Gowanus was a cesspool. Today the surface can appear brown, green, black and sometimes purple, earning the canal the moniker Lavender Lake. Neighborhood residents whisper that the bottom is littered with bodies dumped there by the Mafia. (See pictures of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Brooklyn | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

Miller tangles with Washington's man in charge, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear); gets mixed signals from Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan), a journalist who fed her readers government misinformation about WMD; and finds an ally in Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), a grizzled old CIA hand. He also gets help from a reluctant Iraqi informant named Freddy (Khalid Abdalla, playing the film's richest character) in pursuing an elusive Saddamist general, al-Rawi (Igal Naor), who may hold the secret to the mystery. The viewer is free to infer that Poundstone is L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Zone: Bourne Takes Baghdad | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

After starting 4-1 for the third-straight season, the No. 11 Harvard men’s lacrosse team still had a lingering question: would it be able to finally make the next step and compete regularly with the likes of Brown, Cornell, and Princeton...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lacrosse Suffers Early Setback in Ivy Play | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

Junior attack Dean Gibbons opened the scoring when he rolled behind the goal and swept the ball under Brown goalie Matt Chriss to put Harvard ahead, 1-0, at the 10:21 mark of the first quarter...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lacrosse Suffers Early Setback in Ivy Play | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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