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...outsize fame is more suited to young teens. They don't overthink it. The Book of Job is 41½ chapters about misery and 10 verses about restoration, yet Cyrus read it as being about her. That's a mind trick only a teenager - or a star - can pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miley Cyrus Meets Hannah Montana, At the Multiplex | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Aquila, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Rome, killing at least 260 people. With more than 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, some 28,000 people were left homeless--many of them forced to brave frigid temperatures in makeshift tent camps. As rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the wreckage, authorities called the 6.3-magnitude quake the nation's worst in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...renders impossible many of the conditions implicit in the plan, particularly when it comes to fiscal balance (which everyone is throwing by the wayside) and indebtedness (which has been a problem for a long time in the region). The problem is significant because, if things continue deteriorating, it may pull the region farther and farther away from Europe, in a way that could hurt these countries in the long run. And given the many problems they are now facing, the trade-off inherent in the adoption of the euro makes a lot of sense...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Joining Euro(pe) | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...We’re in an offensive slump, and we need to pull ourselves out,” Allard said. “We’ve been changing up the lineup, doing more drills in practice, attacking and trying to improve. Working on our confidence...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lack of Offense Results in Crimson Shutout | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...This weekend, my beloved Red Sox are making the trip to Los Angeles to take on the Angels. And while I’ll still undoubtedly pull up Gameday every night, by day I’ll be making the trek to a different diamond, anxious to see just how far a rookie ace can take her team...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TO SAY THE LEIST: Historic Season in the Making for Brown | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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