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...past three years, independent filmmakers have faced growing obstacles in obtaining permits and funding to make their movies. "Politics has a direct impact on my art. I can't stay indifferent. Either I get involved or I lose," she says, sitting in her office that she has temporarily converted into the Artists' Headquarters of Reformists. For her plan of action, Hekmat spent one and a half days on the phone and got the signatures of more than 170 of some of Iran's most renowned film people on a pro-reform statement - the first time that a collective statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran's Filmmakers Under Fire | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

Here's the problem: stock options typically are granted on an annual basis, and with each set, you must use them or lose them within 10 years. They have cash-out value only when the stock has risen above the "strike price" (usually the price on the day of the grant) and after a typical vesting period of three or four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consider Your Options | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...chemistry. Sometimes hubris is just hubris. But humans habituate to thrills, which means needing more and more to get the same buzz. "You want to re-create the high, so you up the ante," says neuropharmacologist Candace Pert. And as Spitzer learned, when you risk everything, you can lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Risk-Taking | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...attending.Tyler G. Funk, also a track and field athlete from Dallas with a similar academic background, says that the likely letter he received from Harvard made the recruiting process much easier for him.“In recruiting if you don’t act quickly enough, you lose your spot as quickly as you get your opportunity,” Funk said.Link, on the other hand, is part of a far smaller proportion of students who receive likely letters on the basis of academics rather than athletics.Fitzsimmons says that for non-athletic likelies, the admissions office is primarily motivated...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Likely Letters on the Rise | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...lawsuit) will not want to waste their resources going after such parents, despite the "illegality" of their actions, leaving the Second District Court of Appeals opinion of the law unenforced. "This particular family [involved in the child abuse case] is going to be in jeopardy if they lose," Sugarman said. "But everyone else can go on their merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Resists Home School Ruling | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

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