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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...five years went out of business in 2007, I decided to see if there was anything out there that could save the old-media business from the new-media reality. I have some good news to report. It's true that as long as we in the media ask you to read our stuff on your computer screens, you won't pay for it. But if we deliver that content for a small fee on devices that can surpass the pleasures of reading on paper, you will. So the really pressing question is, Can the technology for such e?reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race for a Better Read | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Each of these four companies has directors who chose not to ask hard questions and demand answers. How does a bank that was making $1 billion a year suddenly make $10 billion? How does a car company that nearly went out of business when oil prices rose sharply over three decades ago decide to reduce spending for the development of fuel-efficient vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boards Refuse to Act Despite Poor Governance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Several of America's most famous companies have fallen on very hard times recently and investors might want to ask whey their boards appear to have done nothing demonstrable to help shareholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boards Refuse to Act Despite Poor Governance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...take so long? How will Williamson specifically and the Lefebvrites in general react? Could this scuttle the Pope's high-stakes gambit to end the excommunication of the breakaway bishops, leaving him permanently damaged both inside and outside the Vatican walls? But perhaps the starting point would be to ask: Who is steering the ship for Benedict during what is turning into the most turbulent crisis of his papacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cardinal Behind the Pope's Lefebvrite Flap | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." - Responding to complaints regarding his belief that women's "biological defects" were the reason that their place was in the home. (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muammar Gaddafi | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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