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Actually, we don't yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for Date Night of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that Clash of the Titans had earned $26,875,000. That's a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Tina Topples, or Ties, Titans | 4/11/2010 | See Source »

Using ballpark figures from the 2009 State of College Admissions report by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, we can estimate that there were 1.5 million applicants to four-year colleges and universities this year...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...with reasonable certainty—and this back-of-the-envelope calculation is certainly not meant to be definitive—that with 25,000 domestic applicants to Harvard, out of 1.5 million applicants in the country, approximately one in 60 of these individuals applied to Harvard this year. For us, these odds are a strong case for humility...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...earlier version of the April 10 post "Admissions: One in Sixty" stated that one in 60 of "high school seniors" applied to Harvard this year. To clarify, these "high school seniors" were part of the pool of 1.5 million applicants in the country and not representative of the entire population of high school seniors in the nation...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...stopped. Those who have taken power, many of them friendly to Moscow, didn't like how the U.S. dealt with Bakiyev during lease-renewal negotiations last spring, believing that the Obama Administration had legitimized an autocratic regime. Still, the country appreciated the increased rent - from $17 million to $63 million annually - as well as a U.S. pledge to spend a further $67 million improving the airport, which serves as Kyrgyzstan's key international gateway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the U.S. Lose Its Base in Kyrgyzstan? | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

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