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Harvard’s seven game winning streak, then, should prove a valuable asset coming into tonight’s game...
Financial giant Citigroup has recently stepped up its efforts to prove to the world that the bank is on the mend. In January, CEO Vikram Pandit said his firm had made enormous progress in 2009. And in February, Citi launched a blog to note that among other things, the bank's focus is "Our Clients. Period." But there is one area where the bank says it is no longer exceptional: it's no longer taking U.S. government handouts...
...strongly opposed by many U.S. commercial fishermen, who worry that a prohibition of global trade in one of the most valuable species in the ocean would inevitably damage the industry. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine blasted the announcement, calling it a "reckless decision that will ultimately prove ineffectual and cause disproportionate harm to the U.S. bluefin tuna industry." And many fishermen doubt that the tuna is really threatened with extinction. (Watch TIME's video "The Trouble with Tuna...
...Anna Behlmer, a nominee for sound mixing for her work on Star Trek, agreed to hear my suggestions. For those of you who don't know what a sound mixer does: she mixes sound. I met Anna four years ago, when I attempted to prove that fashion publicity had gotten so out of control that even a sound mixer could get a designer to lend her a dress for the Oscars. A $2,650 Escada dress, a $1,195 black Swarovski-crystal purse and a $45,000 Erica Courtney diamond bracelet later, I had proved that I am the gayest...
...Anna, who has been nominated nine previous times and has never won, an Oscar would prove a lot, and she wanted people to know that. "I feel like if I do this, I can retire at any time I want," she tells me. Six years ago, when she was nominated for both Seabiscuit and The Last Samurai and still lost, she got so frustrated, she decided to run a marathon. "I kept thinking: I'm sick of not being in control, and it's so random. I want to be in control of something," she says. It was then that...