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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...movie so many times that she lost count. So she told Hughes how accurately his film portrayed high school, how it said exactly what she was feeling, and how much she liked Judd Nelson. (She thought he was hot.) Byrne Fields was having problems of her own - not big problems, though they seemed big at the time - and she told Hughes how much it helped to know that someone out there understood her. John Hughes didn't write back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes' High School Pen Pal | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...need a huge pot of bailout money to trade oil these days. Just don't expect to make the big bucks without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Want to Be an Oil Speculator? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...futures market is like a perpetual roulette wheel: red or black, up or down ... in the end, you're just betting on the direction of prices. And just as in roulette, the house will hold an advantage. In this case the house effectively consists of big players like Goldman Sachs who own supercomputers that can easily stay one step ahead of your moves. Also, since you're not a big player the action is going to come at a steep cost. You'll pay more in exchange fees and commissions than the big boys, and get less profitable prices, buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Want to Be an Oil Speculator? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...parking lot outside - mostly passenger cars, with a handful of small commercial vehicles, SUVs and some motorbikes. A blue-turbaned, elderly Sikh with a flowing white beard kick-starts his scooter while balancing a small knapsack of shopping on the seat behind him. (Read about Walmart's big plans for getting even bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to India's First Walmart (a.k.a. Best Price) | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

...positive impact on the LAPD and the city he grew to love. And he makes a pointed comparison with New York City, where, until he was unceremoniously fired as police commissioner by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he started the policing techniques that are credited with starting the Big Apple's dramatic reduction in crime. Villaraigosa told TIME: "When I first got elected, everybody said that we were going to be like him and Giuliani because we were both strong and we were both, as people say, we weren?t shy in front of a camera and the idea was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

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