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Applied for a job lately? Then your prospective employer probably knows how you spend your Saturday nights. Your could-be boss may also know more about your bathroom habits, sexual preferences and deep thoughts than does the person who shares your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: SATs for J-O-B-S | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

Before taking a bullet in the first episode of this season of The Sopranos, mob boss Tony Soprano was at the top of his game: secure in his business, flush with income, gorging on expensive sushi. When it comes to the TV-crime business, Tony has largely been the unchallenged boss too. Television has occasionally featured wrongfully accused men (The Fugitive) or misunderstood rogues (The Dukes of Hazzard), but TV has mainly been a good guys' zone. Now there are people gunning for Tony in the TV biz as well; the medium is in the middle of a full-blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thick with Thieves | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...before former secretary of state Henry Kissinger penned an op-ed article in the Washington Post praising the agreement as "a seminal contribution to international peace and prosperity. "Ultimately, congressional Republican sources think that view will prevail in Congress. If it doesn't, Rice, Burns and their boss will have a lot of explaining to do to their new friends in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would Congress Block the India Nuclear Deal? | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...Russian liberal parties or groups was established. Shortly before the election Belarusian and Russian TV stations showed one such terrorist who "confessed" to have been trained how to poison a city's water supply system planting a dead rat. But even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh, a construction worker, on the morning of the election. "But I know I'm not." Always an ardent Lukashenko supporter, he said he would not vote for him anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: A Revolution in Belarus? | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...last few months, de Villepin has championed a policy of economic patriotism, putting in place a takeover law that gives the government a veto on deals in 11 sectors of the economy deemed to be strategic. They include biotechnology, arms manufacturing and casinos. But de Villepin's boss, President Jacques Chirac, blustered last week that it was "absolutely absurd" to think of France as protectionist, and he has a point. For much of the 1990s, France was the largest recipient of foreign investment in the European Union; by the end of 2003, one in seven French employees worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Backlash Against Globalization? | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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