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The men's basketball team at Jeremy Lin's alma mater, Harvard University, is making its mark on the national scene — and benefiting from powerful Ivy League recruiting tools: a stellar academic reputation and a big increase in financial aid.

Charles Wheelan is sick of typical graduation speeches. When he spoke at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, he delivered what he called an "anti-commencement" speech. He packed it with straightforward advice that he wishes someone had given him at graduation, such as "Don't try to be great."

The Burmese pro-democracy leader returned to her alma mater to receive the honorary degree she was unable to collect for more than a decade. Aung San Suu Kyi was a student, wife and mother in the city. A family friend says her time there gave Suu Kyi a tool kit of intellectual and analytical skills.

Martin shot to stardom with his hit single "Livin' La Vida Loca" in 1999. While he's spent much of the past decade under the radar, Martin is back with Musica + Alma + Sexo.

Sound of Falling weaves together the experiences of four generations of women living in the same rural stretch of northern Germany, and the secrets that have accumulated over that time.

The NBC Nightly News anchor and his network have for years claimed he was aboard the chopper that was hit and forced down by enemy fire in 2003. Williams now says he made a mistake.

2: Writer, actor, director HAROLD RAMIS. He's one of the most influential forces behind some of the biggest comedy hits of the late 70s and 80s. But his influence is not generally known by those outside the industry. (For that reason he's been called the "Clark Kent" of comedy. Also because he's "mild-mannered," "bespectacled," and he "looks as if he would be the first to duck under the table at the first sign of a food fight"). RAMIS wrote for "The National Lampoon Show," and "SCTV." He co-wrote as well as acted in the movies, "Animal House," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters," and others. He directed the movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray. (REBROADCAST from 2/11/93).

Pvt. Danny Chen's death in October was first said to have been a suicide. But there have been allegations that he was taunted and abused by other soldiers before his death.

For the first time, one of the referees will be an ex-Super Bowl player. Terry Killens was a linebacker with the Tennessee Titans when they famously came up a yard short of a possible Lombardi Trophy.

Thursday is the beginning of the end for magnetic-stripe credit cards. With the change, banks say stores will have to pay for fraudulent purchases. The shift may be hard for some small retailers.