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...Matt Brown will give Harvard a winner,” the promising star said. “Matt Brown will be a role model on and off the court and give Harvard someone exciting to watch...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prep Star Brown to Play for Amaker's Crimson in 2010 | 7/26/2009 | See Source »

...says Lino Graglia, an antitrust expert who teaches at the University of Texas School of Law. "But if this is an instance of a powerful retailer trying to protect itself instead of trying to provide a service to the consumer, it has to be seen as a potential winner." So all you moms who splurged on that $300 breast pump a few years ago: start looking for the receipt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Babies "R" Us Gouge Mommy and Daddy? | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

Last week's winner, the shock-mock-doc comedy Brüno, fell a calamitous 73% to about $8.4 million. It's as if the well-liked Borat, the character from Sacha Baron Cohen's previous hit, had come to a party with a new guest - "Say hello to my little friend Brüno" - and seen him greeted with a hail of bullets. The Friday-Saturday data show that Brüno was not even the top live-action comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Wizardry: Harry Potter's Wand-erful Week | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

...could not locate in the text a single word about the most famous electrician in history, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, and his role in dismantling the Soviet empire, or about the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. It all started here - in Poland. That is what I am teaching my kids, and that is what I expected to find in my favorite weekly. Christopher Komornicki, Wojtowice, Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...Minnesota AT LONG LAST, A WINNER Nearly eight months, 2.4 million votes, a recount, two appeals and $50 million in election spending is all it took to get Al Franken elected U.S. Senator from Minnesota. The longest race in the state's history came to an end when the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously for the former comedian, giving him the win by 312 votes. In the end, GOP incumbent Norm Coleman conceded gracefully, saying, "The future today is ... Al Franken." The belated victory gives Democrats a filibuster-proof majority of 60 votes just as the Senate is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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