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"You really have to prove to people you are different," says Peter Firestein, a corporate-reputation consultant and author of the book Crisis of Character: Building Corporate Reputation in the Age of Skepticism. "They haven't done enough to make people believe their profits-first DNA will change."(See 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goldman Tries to Put a Halo on Bonuses | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

In 2002 the major league players and managers agreed to begin limited, anonymous testing for steroids. Two years later President George W. Bush took the unprecedented step of condemning steroids in his State of the Union address, saying the use of the "dangerous" drugs in baseball, among other sports, "sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steroids | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Actually, it was like watching a master painter apply his brushstrokes to a series of fond character studies. On the palette for Rohmer's prime romantic comedies - he called them "moral tales" - were the cheery pastels of a mythical France where it rarely rains and the sun can make any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Master Eric Rohmer Dies at 89 | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Like most of Mamet's plays, Race is a relatively slight affair: three scenes, four characters, one unnecessary intermission. It opens with two principals of a law firm, one white (James Spader) and one black (David Alan Grier), quizzing a prospective client (Richard Thomas) who has been charged with raping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of David Mamet | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

Almost none of this is plausible, or even logically consistent. In old Mamet, themes and character revelations bubbled up naturally, almost imperceptibly, out of the rambling dialogue--that miasma of indirection, euphemism and profanity that has been dubbed Mametspeak. The new Mametspeak is more like Mametshout: thematic statements imposed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of David Mamet | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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