| 1 | Edie Falco, 46 years old and best known for her portrayal of mob wife Carmela Soprano, stars in "Nurse Jackie, " about a nurse whose heroism with patients runs counter to her messy personal life. | |
| 2 | "Putin is staying on the sidelines in this one and probably happy to let Medvedev take the lead," said a western banker. | |
| 3 | The rescue workers who rushed to the scene, the firefighters who charged up the stairs, the passengers who stormed the cockpit -- these patriots defined the very nature of courage. | |
| 4 | From Huawei to UTStarcom, from Baidu to Alibaba, these players -- not state-owned industrial giants -- are often fighting at the frontier of reform and development. | |
| 5 | In a village recreation room, musicians practise the ear-splitting tunes which their ancestors played for Boxer braves heading into battle with the foreign "hairy ones". |