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Otherwise, we're led to believe, he might have kept his inflammatory theories about evolution to himself. For one thing, they upset the deeply religious Emma, portrayed by a painfully stick-thin Connelly as a woman of humorless severity. But he's continually pushed to write the book. His friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creation: The Origin of Darwin's Origin of Species | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

According to recent studies of French business, the power in the country's largest companies is still dominated by a relatively small number of men. A December review by Ernst & Young, for example, found that a mere 98 people control 43% of the voting power on the boards of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Though the leading companies in France have historically been run by a relatively small and delineated class of industrialists, analysts say that circle has, ironically, grown even tighter with the rise of globalization - and is now dominated by financiers. Analyses show that a disproportionate number of people sitting on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

It's not surprising that virtually all of the country's top executives were educated in the same institutions as those who have long dominated French politics: France's exclusive grandes écoles. These polytechnic, administrative and business graduate schools not only hone the intellectual mettle of the students they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

When Michigan's lieutenant governor, John Cherry, announced earlier this month that he wouldn't seek the state's top elected post, Democrats here and across the country sighed in relief. Though Cherry was the ostensible front runner to succeed Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, he couldn't muster enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan's Governor's Race Tests the Democrats | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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