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...ballplayers have been trained to pick up the delivery or the spin of a low-flung baseball. Brown just used his advantage more effectively and consistently...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Submarines Way to Dominance | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...Taiwan OTC market on March 8, its share price quadrupled on opening day, soaring from $6.72 to $26.85. The performance gave E-Ton a market cap exceeding $570 million, vaulting it into the ranks of Taiwan's 100 largest public companies. Investor enthusiasm for the company, a spin-off from little-known maker of electric bikes and motors JI-EE Industry, is largely explained by one simple fact: E-Ton has pre-sold its entire 2006 production due to growth in demand worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solar Flare | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...kids from New York City who rose to prominence as the first hip-hop group with a number one album on the billboard charts, 1987’s “License to Ill.” To satisfy his interest, the former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin decided to go straight to the sources, interviewing all the key participants for his new oral history of the Beasties, “The Skills to Pay the Bills...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BookEnds: ‘Skills’ Sheds ‘Light’ On The Rise Of The Beasties | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...officially, anyway. Both sides need to avoid appearing as if they're buckling to pressure from the other on the nuclear question, and the official spin is that the nuclear issue is a matter for other forums involving other parties such as the Europeans. But if the two sides do manage to sit down and discuss a matter as strategically important as Iraq is to both - and if they do manage to achieve some measure of accord on that issue - it will mark an historic breakthrough in public engagement between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic. And that would certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. and Iran Will Talk | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

...Ghostbusters”). Starring Aaron Eckhart as “Big Tabacco” mogul Nick Naylor, with a supporting cast of Adam Brody, William H. Macy, Robert Duvall and Katie Holmes, “Thank You for Smoking” satirically examines the world of spin culture in the cigarette industry. Reitman doesn’t seem fazed at all by the acclaim and attention his film—which opens in Boston on March 24—garnered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. In a sweater, loose jeans, and worn tennis shoes...

Author: By Erin A. May, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reitman Savors 'Smoking' Debut | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

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