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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Lewis is a narcissist and a coward who spends as much of his time as possible defending himself in the media. He tried to excuse the mistake of buying Merrill Lynch by saying that the government forced him to close the transaction. As the sitting head of a public company he should not have agreed to the request if he believed it was not in the best interests of the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ken Lewis Keeps His Day Job | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...have picked up the phone and started working their way up the chain of command. If that didn't work, they could have requested a transfer or simply walked away. Or they could have done nothing and left the Army at the end of their enlistment. Suicide was the coward's way out. Scott True, MIAMI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Even more surprising, relatively few of them are musicals, with their ready-made tourist appeal. And while there's the usual spate of revivals - from crowd-pleasing chestnuts (Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring a blithely ageless Angela Lansbury) to more challenging rediscoveries (Ionesco's Exit the King, with an all-stops-out performance by Geoffrey Rush) - what's really striking is the number of new plays that think they've found a home on the Great White Way. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...vile, hate-spewing ignoramus - "I have never heard the man utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word" - but is actually "raucously funny and wise" and that anyone who fails to appreciate this "has never actually listened to the man," and is "a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward" who is "terrified of finding out he makes more sense than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...thought of refusing me. I could see it grinding through his head—how to serve the employer of his daughter if his employer’s daughter was disobeying his employer.Ezekiel! I can’t go back there alone!Stop it. Stop it, you coward. Let it go. For all our decencies. But then Ezekiel said, “I won’t take somebody’s seat.”Doubt bloomed in my chest. Like a big swallow of cordial.“I ain’t goin’ to make...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FEATURED FICTION | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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