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...feel like I haven't really tried hard in two years. I don't even know what I'm capable of," he says. Meanwhile, he's hanging out with his friends, writing songs and screenplays, seeing nearly every movie that comes out and avoiding malls and other places swoon-prone teenage girls hang out, since he finds being swarmed with cell-phone cameras incredibly embarrassing. These are things Urkel did not have to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Adorkable | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...cars, much to the benefit of multinational and Chinese companies alike. But while investors are right about China's economic importance to the world, they're clearly still confused about how to interpret a decline in Chinese stocks. There's little question that the reaction to China's market swoon was overwrought, and that this is not a replay of 1997. Rarely, if ever, has the global economy been stronger than it is now-one reason why so many stock markets have been so healthy for so long. If anything, what the Shanghai shock provided was a reason for investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Factor | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...cars, much to the benefit of multinational and Chinese companies alike. But while investors are right about China's economic importance to the world, they're clearly still confused about how to interpret a decline in Chinese stocks. There's little question that the reaction to China's market swoon was overwrought, and that this is not a replay of 1997. Rarely, if ever, has the global economy been stronger than it is now - one reason why so many stock markets have been so healthy for so long. If anything, what the Shanghai shock provided was a reason for investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind China's Stock Meltdown | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...last year’s post-Princeton dissolution. The circumstances this year are slightly different, of course. In 2006, the squad blew a last-minute lead at home to fall on a buzzer-beater in the final second, which lead to a string of six more losses, a swoon that served as the emblem for Harvard’s most disappointing season in recent memory. This year’s team held an eight-point lead early in the second half last Friday night, but was slowly bled to death over the remainder of regulation and two overtime periods...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Crimson Hopes To Not Repeat 2006 Collapse | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...that admiration comes at a price of an unflattering stereotype. Reactions vary when others find out Litt is in Math 55. Some immediately request homework help, he says. “Sometimes people just spontaneously combust, swoon, faint, turn bright red, start giggling...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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