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...need you to plan a presidential assassination," U.S. intelligence honcho Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) tells ex-Marine Gunnery Sgt. and all-round super sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg). It's for the good of the country, of course: Seems that the CIA has a tip on a plot to take a potshot at POTUS; and Swagger, a former Marine Gunnery Sgt. who can nail a gnat from a mile away in a high wind, is just the fellow to get into the mind of the would-be Hinckley and prevent the fourth killing of a U.S. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Holes in a Conspiracy | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...know how much private-equity firms make, but the amount is reliably assumed to be humongous. And so what? Right? If he can turn, say, a $5 billion company into a $10 billion company a couple of years later, what's wrong with a few hundred million in the tip jar for Uncle Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abracadabra for Sale | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...harsh penalties, like losing their spot in the draft for a year or more, but the greater damage is to the club's reputation and that of Japanese baseball. Former major league manager Bobby Valentine, who now helms the Chiba Lotte Marines in Tokyo, called the Lions' payoffs "the tip of the iceberg." Japanese have tired of the clubby, borderline-corrupt business practices of old-school corporations like the ones behind baseball. That disgust may be bleeding over to the teams themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying Sayonara to a Superstar | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...linemen. And for them, with the simple goal of protecting the quarterback or opening holes for the running back comes another objective: being big. Real big.A typical Harvard lineman is around 6’4” and weighs in at 275 pounds, while NFL linemen tip the scales at an average of 300 pounds. How do they do that, you ask? They eat. And they eat a lot. They eat as much as they can, and sometimes even more. Eating becomes almost another form of training. After all, it takes a special something for someone to graze on three...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To Eat Or Not to Eat? Not Even a Question | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...regret coming to Maryland, obviously. It’s been a great four years.”Delaney-Smith thinks it would have been a great four years coaching Doron in crimson and white. In defeat, she can only gear her young underdogs up for another run, and tip her hat to the one who got away.—Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard Recruit Shines in Maryland Uniform | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

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