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Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating Reuters Top News
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.
Corey Haim Dead: Died Of Apparent Overdose At 38 Huffington Post

Actor Corey Haim died this morning of an apparent overdose -- possibly accidental -- according to LAPD. He was 38.

Police tell us they were called to St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, CA shortly before 4AM PT to investigate.


Biden condemns Israeli settlement project Reuters Top News
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden publicly condemned on Wednesday Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers, saying on a West Bank visit the project undermined Washington's peace efforts.
Course Evaluations Set Professor Salaries Huffington Post

For students, the end of winter quarter means not only final exams and spring break plans, but also course evaluations, those thrice-yearly surveys in which students rate their classes in exchange for an earlier glimpse at their grades.

For professors and teaching assistants, those course evaluations also mean end-quarter grades -- not a part of their GPA, but important for a shot at a raise, a promotion or tenure.

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Black Barbie Sold Cheaper Than White Barbie At Walmart Huffington Post

Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll's white counterpart at one store and possibly others.

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Marshall Fine: Dan Klores aims for Winning Time Huffington Post

Dan Klores thought he was finished with sports films. Then Reggie Miller crept into his consciousness.

The result isWinning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks,which airs Sunday (3/14/10) on ESPN, after playing at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

"I didn't want to do another sports film," says Klores, a one-time journalist and founder of his own PR firm, who has segued into filmmaking full-time. "But then I was at a Knicks' game with my son and I thought it could be fun.

"Fun - that was the word. When I started, I said I needed to make it fun for everyone. Before every interview, I said to the person I was interviewing, 'This should be fun.' My approach was not Reggie as a basketball player but that Reggie was a performance artist and Madison Square Garden was clearly his stage. That's why I chose opera for the soundtrack."

Winning Timechronicles the special adversary relationship between perennial all-star Reggie Miller of the Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks of the mid-1990s. In particular, Klores focuses on two astonishing Miller performances in the Garden: a 1994 playoff game in which Miller single-handedly beat the Knicks by connecting for 25 points in the fourth quarter; and a 1995 playoff game in which Miller brought the Pacers back from the brink of defeat by scoring eight points in the game's final nine seconds.

Klores started making documentaries in 2003 and has had several films invited to the Sundance Film Festival, including 2007 Independent Spirit Award winnerCrazy Love. ForWinning Time,his central focus was Miller: a talkative, self-confident, even swaggering player who seemed to take his game to another level whenever he faced the Knicks.

"Reggie was wonderful," Klores says. "I always felt that, when an athlete was so great, you may not be an intellectual about everything but you should be able to talk about what you do. He has a precise knowledge about the minute points, about the mental and physical part of the game. He also had the best line about Larry Brown (then-coach of the Pacers and subsequently an embattled coach for the beleaguered 21st-century Knicks): that he was a perfectionist in an imperfect game."

Even with a distance of 15 years, Klores found that the Knicks' memories of those remarkable games remained strong and detailed: "John Starks was terrific and Jeff Van Gundy has that insatiable knowledge," Klores says. "I chose to interview (then-Knicks coach) Pat Riley last because I had the feeling he'd be so good that he could take over the movie. I kept the interview with him to a half hour on purpose. And Patrick Ewing - everyone said, Ewing, he'll be hard, tough to talk to. But he was exactly the opposite. He had a smile but also an anguish."

Klores made the film as part of ESPN's30 for 30series of one-hour sports documentaries. But once he started working on it, he knew he'd need more than the 54 minutes the network allowed him - and was able to stretch it to 68 minutes. Even then, there were things he couldn't squeeze into the film.

This interview continues on my website.

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Anthony Mobley, World Series Ring-Stealing Janitor, Faces Up To ... Huffington Post

On Monday a janitor who worked at Citizens Bank Ballpark pleaded guilty to stealing a World Series ring he found in a bathroom at the ballpark last summer, and now he's facing up to seven years behind bars.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said Wednesday.
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