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...This way, we see that Russia's achievement is more than modest. Under oil windfall profits, Russia's GDP should have grown by 15% to 16% in 2005. Once you dismiss the windfall profits, you see a poor quality of the economic policy that has proven negative to the tune of losing some 9% to 10% of the GDP growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

...commissioner would spread through his body. ?When I get angry and really fired up... I will say vicious things,? he told 60 Minutes recently, allowing that now, at 51, he might not be so cavalier. But part of Stern?s lure for the estimated 12 million Americans who tune in to his show has always been seeing how far he?d go. Which raises the question: will his act wear thin if he doesn?t have the FCC watching over him like a Victorian grandma intent on washing his mouth out every time he lets a fart joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard Stern: The $500 Million Man | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...encourage students to experiment with different job options. “A student can have a conversation with a consultant and then turn around and learn about some community-service opportunity,” she said. “It allows us to develop a personal editing process, to tune out certain opportunities and pick up others...

Author: By Sadia Ahsanuddin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Firms Lure Students With Freebies | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...more than your average Carrey flick. Alec Baldwin, Angie Harmon, and Richard Jenkins give memorable supporting performances, but the real standout here is the dazzling Leoni, who steals every scene as the straight (wo)man to the larger-than-life Carrey. Her comic timing is so in tune, she and Carrey are the perfect comic team. Leoni’s character, a desperate housewife trying to keep up appearances as her life falls apart, allows viewers to sympathize with Dick and Jane’s dilemma. The humor of the film lies in the hilarious robbery scenes juxtaposed against suburban...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fun with Dick and Jane | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...Have you heard of Mass. Hall? FM found records pointing to its existence in GovDocs. Apparently, knocking on the door three times and clicking your heels to the tune of “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” would get you into Sexual Paradise...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Majorly Secretive Secrets Revealed | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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