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During the preseason mini-camp—when coaches are accustomed to seeing five or six freshmen quit the squad—this year’s class surprised everyone when not one freshman abandoned the team...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deadly Defensive Weapons | 9/21/2005 | See Source »

...Name Is Earl likewise claim to feel little pressure to save a multibillion-dollar business. They just want to get the smoking episode done. In it, Earl Hickey (Jason Lee)--a ne'er-do-well trying to make amends to everyone he has ever wronged--resolves to quit cigarettes. NBC executives have asked for rewrites to make Earl more "active." Shooting is due to start in two days, so the staff of a dozen settles into comfy chairs in the writers' room, downs bottled water and bats around the problem: How can someone actively not do something? Finally, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Sitcoms | 9/17/2005 | See Source »

...QUIT WHILE YOU'RE BEHIND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking With Tradition | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

These very wealthy, very famous, very powerful people are just like you and me. The only difference is, these guys had a dream, and they never quit, and they never took no for an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Jake's Take | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

Noel Lee's career is as colorful as his many sports cars: he quit a job in nuclear research to play folk rock before deciding in 1979 to make quality speaker wire. The CEO of Monster Cable spoke with TIME's AMANDA BOWER about how he built a company on a product that stores used to give away, as well as the wireless revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Monster | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

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