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...Bischoff's place as Citi chairman but he did not do a bang up job at the media company. He has also been sitting on the Citi board during most of the period when the decisions were made that nearly brought the bank down. It would be hard to defend the position that he is blameless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imbecile's Ball: Citigroup Dances Around Management Change | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...requesting his extension, Fitzgerald seems to have handed Blagojevich lead attorney Edward Genson a good chunk of information to play with before April 7. Just how will Genson and his team defend the governor against the charge that he attempted to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat and other corruption allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Blagojevich Defend Himself in Court? | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...second half, we didn’t defend them at all,” Eagles’ coach Al Skinner said. “They shot 60 percent. We just didn’t get ourselves ready to play the way we should have...

Author: By Ted Kirby | Title: Men's Basketball Stuns No. 17 Boston College, 82-70 | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Assembly session, the Labor Minister reported that 99.1 percent of the 3,057,568 participants in assemblies convened to discuss the bill had approved it. This was no doubt aided by the government’s full use of its ownership and operation of all the mass media to defend the policy changes in the absence of counterarguments. Nor should there be doubt that the substantive policy change was necessary. But surely the minister should have blushed. Did he really believe that a policy change of this magnitude, bitterly divisive in most democratic countries, would have obtained such an unbelievably...

Author: By Jorge I. Domínguez | Title: The Castro Regime at Age 50 | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Israel's Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, has promised a "war to the bitter end." But after 60 years of struggle to defend their existence against foreign threats and enemies within, many Israelis may be wondering, Where does that end lie? The threat posed by Hamas is only the most immediate of the many interlocking challenges facing Israel, some of which cast dark shadows over the long-term viability of a democratic Jewish state. The offensive in Gaza may degrade Hamas' ability to menace southern Israel with rocket fire, but, as with Israel's 2006 war against Hizballah, the application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza? | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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