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...many times is that annoying announcer going to ask the question, 'Will Avatar win Best Picture?' My answer is, 'Depends on how many Rolexes, Samsung DVD players, free food, and gambling trips to Vegas the studio gifted the HFPA members. Isn't that how it's done? Oh, wait, this was 20th Century Fox, the cheapest studio in Hollywood. Maybe the Avatar keychain was enough." (See the Top 10 James Cameron Moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron's Avatar Takes Golden Globe Glory | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Indeed, some residents remain cautious about the University’s course of action in Allston. Houghton said that he was “very pessimistic” about Allston’s future and that he would wait to see if the faculty Work Team could deliver results before casting further judgment. He also said that he was surprised at other residents’ hopeful attitude...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Residents Forge Ahead | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

...poor working conditions are simply eliminated - and not just by a pink slip. "It's a military system," Saviano tells TIME in Rome as one of the plainclothes cops guarding him stands nearby. "The farm and factory owners employ the Mafia caporali to bring the workers. The immigrants wait on the roads, the caporali pick them up and take them to the work. If they complain, they get killed." (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: African Immigrants in Italy: Slave Labor for the Mafia | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

Text-based fundraising is all about immediacy. You don't need to wait until you get home and turn on the computer. Simply enter a five- or six-digit code into your cell phone, along with a single word in the body of the text, such as "Haiti." You don't even need to plug in your credit-card info - the donation amount is simply added to your next phone bill. It's all so quick and convenient, you can give in the moment. There's no chance of you forgetting to do it later. (See pictures of the Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donating by Text: Haiti Fundraising Goes Viral | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...easy to mock as they are to make. But in uncertain times, reviewing and previewing are serious business. They let us imagine we can impose some order on the fresh calendar page - marking holidays, graduations, movie premieres, tax-free back-to-school shopping week - even as we wait to see which days, now anonymous or devoted to watching groundhogs, will be raised from obscurity to eternity in the history books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance of Things Future | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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