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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Poker Legend Doyle Brunson | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...implausible suggestion," analysts at HSBC wrote in a May note to clients, but "its pre-eminent position as the reserves currency of the world does not mean that [the dollar] will maintain its value." Like Derrick, HSBC is counting on a further fall in the months ahead. Better not leave that holiday too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outlook for U.S. Dollar Darkens | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...Sitting on the back counter in the conference room, with his gray hair swept across his forehead and his horn-rimmed glasses facing us, he asked each intern a series of questions to test us out, get to know us better. When he asked one girl what she wanted to do after college, she said law school; he affirmed that as a secure path. Another intern said that she really wanted to go into journalism; he asked, “Are you sure?” When a third intern told him she was a literature major at Bard...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: The Manila Folder | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

They should have known better. "People should realize by now that at Montreux, the word jazz covers all kinds of other styles of music," says Nobs. He still programs plenty of the purest genre: this year's lineup includes pianists Monty Alexander and McCoy Tyner and guitarists John Scofield and Bill Frisell. And irrepressible blues miracle B.B. King will be around again, despite announcing that his last appearance, in 2006, was to have been his last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montreux: Beyond the Blues | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...Sydney, the news was met with mixed reactions. Some are fervent supporters of the LTTE and others downright oppose the separatist movement, but are reluctant to publicly criticize the Tigers out of fear of a network globally regarded as terrorists. What more Tamils living abroad can agree on is better rights for the minority still in the country. Many Tamils, who are primarily Hindu, have long claimed job discrimination and unequal political power in a nation and government dominated by Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority. For decades, hundreds of thousands of Tamils have endured life in the cross fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War's End Hasn't Stilled the World's Young Tamil Voices | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

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