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...Found. The Earhart movie, originally to have been directed by Phillip Noyce, with Cate Blanchett rumored to play Amelia Earhart, was finally made with Hilary Swank starring and India-born, Harvard-educated Mira Nair behind the camera. It happens that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. Numerology suggested another Swank statuette in 2010. But who, exactly, was supposed to pay to see her as The Aviatrix? Earhart's plane was lost in the mid-Pacific 72 years...
...probable wage cut in December when public spending is expected to be slashed in the budget in a bid to reduce Ireland's gaping deficit. "No one even knows if [NAMA] will work because it's never been done before," she says. "All I know is that it won't be the developers or bankers who'll be feeling the pain if it all goes wrong." (Read "Ireland's Economy: Celtic Crunch Time...
...ESPN won't comment on any potential legal action against Deadspin. Of course, if the claims that Deadspin published are true, there's no case. Daulerio says that although he has more sordid information on other ESPN employees, the "Horndog Dossier" is over. That's good news. But perhaps it's a little too late for those who were caught in the crossfire...
...ignored, Levitt and Dubner's biggest mistake in their examination of the topic lay in being seduced by a clever-sounding, cheap and contrarian shortcut. Climate change, however, is one issue for which the conventional wisdom still works, even though it's costly - and even though conventional wisdom won't sell 3 million books...
...unemployed college graduates whose salaries are far below those in India's established IT hubs. But the state government and the army are virtually Gulzar's only clients; multinational companies are reluctant to outsource work to Kashmir. "Unless and until there is a political solution," he says, "it won't happen." (Read "Big Turnout, Amid Protests, in Kashmir Vote...