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...statement, SASC chairman Senator Carl Levin said the report "represents a condemnation of both the Bush Administration's interrogation policies and of senior Administration officials who attempted to shift the blame for abuse - such as that seen at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and Afghanistan - to low-ranking soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report Details Pentagon Role in Torture Tactics | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues. The decision, said John Kennedy, boss of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pirate Bay Guilty of Breaching Copyrights | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...pressure on Vietnam to proceed as planned is enormous, says Carl A. Thayer, a Vietnam expert who teaches at the University of New South Wales' Australian Defense Force Academy. Vietnam needs to trade with China, the world's third-largest economy, to survive. Thayer acknowledges that no Chinese company operates independently of the government. "If you go up far enough you will find a military or a security connection," he says. "But Chinese occupation? I don't believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vietnam, New Fears of a Chinese 'Invasion' | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs W. Carl Kester said that the case aims to examine every facet of life and education at the school...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Business School Evaluates Past Performance | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

First, some background: private equity refers to what in the 1980s was called the leveraged buyout (LBO). LBO artists such as Henry Kravis and Carl Icahn borrowed lots of money on the junk-bond market built by financier Michael Milken and used it to finance takeovers - sometimes hostile ones - of struggling corporations. During the recession of the early 1990s, the LBO business faltered, and many predicted its demise. But buyout funds re-emerged under the more genteel moniker private equity, eschewed hostile takeovers, reliably outperformed the S&P 500 and grew to be a far bigger force than they ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Equity, the Giant Before the Bust, Hangs On | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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