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...coach at Texas Tech, his home since being fired by Indiana. Knight, who is succeeded by his son Pat, told colleagues he was tired. But he was also following a tradition of writing his own script. Last year, when he broke the record for game wins, the song he chose to play over the loudspeaker was My Way. "When I think back on it," he said then, "I don't think my way was all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...demands that member states and their dependencies either automatically exchange information on the accounts kept in their banks by E.U. residents or start imposing a 15% withholding tax on any foreign-sourced interest paid into those accounts. Most member states agreed to share information, but a few hold-outs chose the levy instead. Switzerland, which isn't in the E.U. but is covered by the directive, was one of them. Now, Swiss secrecy comes at a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take the Money and Run | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...potential for voter fraud through multiple votes by those with more than one email address. And in a blatant attempt at trying to make this a popular poll, the Commission will award a set of gold coins worth "several thousand euros" to one random person from those who chose the most popular design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Pocket-Change Democracy | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...fall of 1965 sparked half a million murders, and that Suharto and his soldiers were responsible. We students did not know about the killings at the time. If we heard anything bad, we refused to believe it. And if we believed it, we thought it justified. We chose what we thought was freedom against communism. Eventually, many of us changed our stance. I later called for Suharto's dismissal and was jailed for a while, and my TV talk show was banned. Suharto's New Order was precisely that: if not a police state certainly a policed one, with everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lingering Effect | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...worked in animation in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, has given up. "There's really nothing that can be done," he says. "The only hope is that someday our product is cheap enough that it's not affordable to counterfeit." Lucasfilm, on the other hand, chose to operate in Singapore because of the country's strict copyright laws and advanced legal system. "We feel comfortable that the infrastructure is in place to protect individual IP," says Kubsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantasy League | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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