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...premature to write off the EU's emissions program altogether. But if it does crumble over the next two months, the tipping point will have been the moment the E.U. finally got its act together on saving its troubled banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe Backsliding on Climate-Change Targets? | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...your options are." In the case of B&B Power, for example, "if you sack the manager you'd end up in the ridiculous situation where you'd pay them 25 years' worth of management fees - that's crazy." The review also noted that the funds are allowed to act in ways that normal companies are not, paying dividends, for example, from capital or borrowings rather than profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of the Toll Road? | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Finalsclub.org is facing heavy opposition from the University, starting with legal concerns. Harvard’s general counsel writes in an email to a professor, “Under the federal Copyright Act of 1976, a lecture is automatically copyrighted as long as the professor prepared some tangible expression of the content—notes, an outline, a script, a video or audio recording...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Opening the Ivory Tower | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...act of contrition enough to save his seat? Feeney thinks it helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Florida Republican Tries to Survive Abramoff | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...comfortable with ambiguity than is a voter heading into the booth. Even in crisis, they say, there is no perfect presidential temperament. "You want the right blend of confidence and humility," argues Yale historian Beverly Gage. "And you want someone who has the confidence to make big decisions, to act in crisis, but who also has the humility to listen to other people, to be flexible in those moments. So when does confidence become arrogance, and when does humility become insecurity and inability to make decisions? All of these are so elusive, it doesn't seem that you can come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Temperament Factor: Who's Best Suited to the Job? | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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