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...MARIAH CAREY from a career meltdown. When her 2001 movie Glitter became synonymous with box-office bust and her public behavior began to include such acts as an impromptu striptease on MTV, Carey's record company paid her a reported $28 million just to go away. But a Carey comeback that started with this year's second-best-selling CD, The Emancipation of Mimi, has crescendoed with the singer earning eight Grammy nominations for Mimi and the single We Belong Together. "This year has been such a blessing," Carey said. And an emancipation. Let's hope the next album...
...market cooled a bit last week, some on Wall Street are daring to speak of--gulp--a record-high Dow Jones industrial average, which is just a 9% gain away. Yet even if that pans out, here's one bull-market relic that won't be making a comeback anytime soon: the celebrity mutual-fund manager...
White House strategists believe they have ended the slide in Bush's approval ratings, which lately have been topping 40% again. "It's time for the Bush comeback story!" one coached TIME for this article. "The perfect storm has receded. We have better news in Iraq, oil prices are down, and Katrina has kind of fallen off the radar screen in terms of public concern." But they know that Bush is running short of time to salvage his remaining three years. The focus will soon shift to the 2006 midterm elections and then to the race to replace...
...stop her. That was our fault. We changed in the second half, but it happened way too late.” The Crimson held Roche to just two second-half points, but as has been the case all season, a lopsided first half made any second-half Harvard comeback all but impossible. Roche’s third three at 6:13 of the first frame punctuated a 9-0 Richmond run that put the hosts up 30-19. When freshman center Emma Moretzsohn stopped the surge with a layup at 4:14 remaining—ending a Harvard scoring drought...
...they make close games of certain blowouts, and they pack the stands time after time. Two seasons ago, Harvard trailed Yale 4-0 after one period and 5-2 after two in New Haven. But twenty minutes and five unanswered goals later, the Crimson pulled off a comeback that even its players admitted they weren’t expecting. And it was that game, that one merciless period, that “kind of broke the Yale hockey spirit for a while,” said Bulldogs coach Tim Taylor ’63. “We?...