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Accounting, I admit, is not the normal stuff of true-crime drama. But among accused finaglers walking perplike into court, former bean counters at accounting firm KPMG have more cause than most to question White House tactics against financial fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Accounting for Crime | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Italy, that museum for the Maserati car company in Modena and a subway station in Naples that's a collaboration with Anish Kapoor. He's the British artist best known in the U.S. for Cloud Mirror, the reflective steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that locals call the Bean. Obviously, beans are a developing theme here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Way Out of the Box | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...finding yourself lost in an impenetrable, moving mass of people is hardly rare. That's why, in search of a subway stop on a recent Sunday, I failed to notice that I'd joined a protest march. It wasn't until the woman next to me offered a sweet bean cake and a petition to sign that I realized that I was surrounded by Filipina women. Some 6,000 angry Filipinas, I was later to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolt of the Housekeepers | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

...double by 2010 and doesn't include probably another couple billion in cash brought by suitcase. "I have two sons. My heart is broken to leave them," one amah, Ana Tellez, told me. "But there is no work at home. We'd starve if I wasn't here." My bean cake, which I had hungrily finished just minutes before, quickly sank to the pit of my stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolt of the Housekeepers | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

...former outfielder (not the general manager of the Oakland A's--that's Beane) hit the front pages when he came out in '99, and he has been an outspoken gay-rights activist ever since. He runs a real estate business in Miami Beach with his longtime partner. Showtime is developing a film based on Bean's autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Locker-Room Closet | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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