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...full redemption, not to mention true resurrection, requires a personal appearance. And on the 125th day he rose from the dead, at least on screen, with Michael Jackson's This Is It, a docu-musical record of the star's rehearsals for his comeback London concert series that was to begin in July. Sony, the music and movie conglomerate that has had a decades-long stake in Jackson's economic fortunes, shrouded the project in mystery until its premiere, which was held simultaneously on Tuesday night and Wednesday in 16 cities around the globe. (Sony took over all 13 auditoriums...
William R. Rose ’11, one of two students appointed by the Undergraduate Council to the committee that reviewed the J-Term applications, said that the committee did not receive any “ridiculous applications...
...according to federal officials. Unlike the seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported by 27 states between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10 were people aged 24 and younger. About 23% of the deaths reported from 28 states during this period were in this...
Saakashvili still has the immense talent for communication that made him an international celebrity when he took power after 2003's bloodless Rose Revolution. He's an imposing man - at 6 ft. 4 in. (193 cm), he is the tallest Georgian I saw until we watched the national basketball team beat Belarus - with a polyglot charisma. At various times throughout the week, he spoke to me in Russian, Spanish and - above all - his famous English, an enthusiastic tumble of idiomatic American that he learned while studying and practicing law in New York City and Washington. (See pictures of the Russians...
...Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increased 131% from 1999 to 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation; over the same period, employee contributions to those premiums went up 128%. From 2006 to 2009, the percentage of insured individual workers with annual deductibles of $1,000 or more rose from 10% to 22%. Of companies that offered health benefits in 2009, 86% offered only one plan. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...