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Berlusconi Adjusts His Set Last week the government of Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was in crisis. His center-right coalition, shaken by overwhelming losses in regional elections earlier this month and bitter debate over the leader's tax and economic policies, began to disintegrate: one Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Follini, resigned and withdrew his ministers from the Cabinet, raising the possibility of early elections. But financially, Berlusconi the media tycoon had a great week: his family's holding company announced the sale of 197 million shares in the Mediaset group - which owns all three of Italy's major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

Although the Schiavo case was tragic, the reality is that life-and-death decisions are made every day around the country. That this situation rose to such notoriety was shameful for everyone involved. The folks on both sides of the bitter controversy should cease all their ax grinding and let Terri rest in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...title of your piece on the school shooting in Red Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...from J.P. Morgan's financial empire by regulators in 1935, has rarely seen such turmoil. For now, the brand remains strong. Stock and bond trading have been minting gold, and the firm has advised on seven of the 10 biggest takeovers in the world this year. But the increasingly bitter spat between Purcell, a master survivor, and eight former Morgan bankers led by another ex-president, Robert Scott, threatens all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upheaval in the Ranks at Morgan Stanley | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...prepared for the role by riding along with L.A.’s finest, soliciting tips on how to play a “hard-nosed, controlling” officer “who’s bitter, and some of that bitterness comes out sideways on the job.” According to Dillon, the veteran police officer he tagged along with described brutal police officers as a relatively commonplace occurrence in the force—kicking feet out, twisting fingers together...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dillon, Haggis Collide in ‘Crash’ | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

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