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...audience going to believe Hopkins extras for stand-in Harvard students. Good luck trying to procure enough J.Crew loafers and North Face backpacks to make that work. Though, come to think of it, this financial boost thing seems rather practical. Maybe Harvard should've started recouping endowment losses sooner by opening its gates to film crews...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: Campus Doubles | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...some pretty awful luck with Christmas. What do you have planned this year? My partner and I have split after about a decade together. So there you go. It keeps going. But what I've found is these holidays that I always think are so horrible actually aren't quite that horrible. It's like when our house flooded [one Christmas]. The way our neighbor responded, it wasn't just that she helped. And it wasn't that she later brought over a basket of sandwiches. There was something nearly indescribable in the way that she offered herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...alone. Gambling is a known phenomenon, but professional gambling? That's a whole different story. Find out more about these professionals, including acclaimed player Matt Hawrilenko, and how they manage to get on the good side of luck...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The World of Professional Gamblers | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Good luck with that. Even Sarkozy's opponents concede that his pragmatism and push to modernize France - just as millions of regular French voters have modernized their own lives - are a large part of his appeal. Time-honored formalities, and the type of scheming in smoke-filled back rooms that the Clearstream scandal conjures up, are increasingly irrelevant in a country that now embraces everything from McDonald's to reality TV. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy and Villepin: A Tale of Two Classes | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Much has been made of Obama's seemingly premature win and the committee's vague reasoning (he promoted "international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"). Unfortunately, those seeking answers are out of luck: Nobel documents are sealed for 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: The Nobel Peace Prize | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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