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...stock-market crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Signs of a Bottom As Stocks Hit 12-Year Low | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...tragic footnote in the U.S.-backed war on Colombia's narco-guerrillas. The Americans were kidnapped by Marxist rebels of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) on Feb. 13, 2003, after the single engine on their drug-surveillance plane conked out in southern Colombia. Not only did they crash on top of a platoon of insurgents, but they had the bad luck of being snatched just weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. With all eyes on Baghdad and new war heroes like former POW Jessica Lynch, hardly anyone noticed that three Americans had gone missing in Colombia. Besides, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betancourt No Hero, Say Fellow Former Hostages | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...with Blue Point oysters, beef Richelieu, live piano music, and a string quartet playing songs from the Victorian era. The whole project is supposed to illustrate how far Harvard has come from its blue-Blooded roots, but, uh, surprise! The 6 p.m. dinner is ticket/invite only. Bet you can crash it, though...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Harvard Gets Even More Pretentious | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

...idea of a very different car chase, in which a driver pursued a man in a metro car.When the two went to the transit authority to assess the plausibility of this dream, the Movie God stepped in yet again. Asking for permission to film a train crash in an elevated train system that in over half a century had never seen an accident, the two were gravely told by the supervisor that allowing it would lose him his job. As Friedkin and D’Antoni headed dejectedly toward the door, the man stopped them and announced that he?...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Friedkin Makes the 'Connection' | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...from Punjab when he was hand-selected as finance leader by Pakistan's president Zia ul-Haq in 1981. He later became Punjab's chief minister in 1988, where he used his influence to challenge prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who took power after ul-Haq died in a plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistani Opposition Leader Nawaz Sharif | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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