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It goes without saying that they've never been known as fans of each other's work. During the more than five years it took to bring the Wyly and Winspear from the design phase to completion, representatives of the two firms rarely showed up in Dallas at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curtains up at the Dallas Performing Arts Center | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Outrage over Moir's column was instantaneous and - thanks to Twitter - widespread. More than 22,000 people protested to Britain's Press Complaints Commission (PCC), an independent body that investigates and rules on complaints about newspapers and magazines. (For reference, that's nearly the same number of protests that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Bigoted Speech Be Free? A Debate in Britain | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), though, argued in June that giving biologics makers any period of exclusivity at all could actually stifle innovation. Biologics are so much more complex and expensive to produce than traditional drugs that the barriers to would-be "biosimilar" competitors are already high, the FTC said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Won on Health-Care | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

The reforms, likely to be enacted by the Senate this week, significantly expand due process rights beyond the law Bush muscled through Congress in 2006. Statements obtained by "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" would be prohibited. Hearsay evidence would be harder to introduce in a commission proceeding. Defendants would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Tribunals Make Closing Gitmo a Tough Goal | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

But tribunals will not clear the Gitmo backlog of 221 cases as quickly as hoped. Once Obama signs the law, the Department of Defense will have 90 days to draft rules spelling out how the reformed panels would operate. With new evidentiary standards, government prosecutors will have to review their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Tribunals Make Closing Gitmo a Tough Goal | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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