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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Australia, our national ethos is to give everyone a fair go and by comparison with other countries we are conservative. Kevin Rudd has had his fair go and the jury is in. Unfortunately, Rudd has proven to embody the current zeitgeist in liberal democracy: that of spin and the contrived press conference over any substance or long-term vision. Australians, spoiled by boom times that fiscal discipline and staunch leadership had delivered over the course of the previous decade, treated themselves to a new pair of shoes when electing Rudd back in late 2007. Great marketing in the purest sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...hearing footsteps. According to one Google insider, the week Bing launched many employees at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters could be seen punching queries into Bing to see how the results compared with Google's. (There's now a website that will do a side-by-side comparison for you: http://www.bing-vs-google.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microsoft's Bing Take a Bite out of Google? | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...little funnier than Buddha Buddhism." When I ask Apatow if he sees himself having a career like those of two filmmakers known for the dramedy mode - Woody Allen and James L. Brooks, who made Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News - he gets way more excited about the Brooks comparison. "Woody Allen isn't very hopeful about human beings," he says. "Jim Brooks is hopeful. He likes people." (See pictures of movie costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Judd Apatow Seriously | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's Tactical Technology Unit. In a typical 10-hour shift, Gomez says, a police officer traditionally could run perhaps 100 license plates through the system - calling the information in or typing into a computer, then waiting for a response. In comparison, says Gomez, the APLR system can process from 2,000 to 2,500 license plate "hits" per patrol car in that same 10-hour shift. (See the best inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: License-Plate Scanners: Fighting Crime or Invading Privacy? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...Well, all of us look dull in comparison to Sarah Palin, so that's not really a fault of Sean Parnell's...Some people are weary of the drama." - Alaska Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis. (KTUU, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

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