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...people have to make car payments next month. I'd love to have a great deal more stimulus money to do this type of thing in other counties, but there is not a lot of money available. If there is another stimulus package, real consideration should be given to direct employment, in WPA fashion, in the public and private sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Economy: Time for a Real Jobs Stimulus? | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

Sometimes bad breaks can bring great fortune. A few years ago, Peter Jackson, the Lord of the Rings movies, planned a big-screen version of the Halo video-game universe and tapped Neill Blomkamp to direct it. When that project collapsed after a few months, Jackson proposed that Blomkamp turn his science-fiction short Alive in Joburg into his first feature film. It would be set in Blomkamp's native South Africa, focus on the country's traumatic tradition of apartheid, have characters who speak in unfamiliar accents or unknown languages, boast no star power - the lead actor had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: District 9 Shows Prawn Power | 8/16/2009 | See Source »

...also defend herself by discussing the man she is accused of wronging: the executed Michael Richard. Richard had a long legal history and a criminal record that evokes little sympathy. "By the time he was executed," Keller wrote in her response to the charges, "Richard had two trials, two direct appeals (including to the United States Supreme Court), two state habeas corpus proceedings and three federal habeas corpus hearings or motions." She added that the charge against her that Richard was not accorded access to open courts or the right to be heard "is patently without merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Texas Judge on Trial: Closed to a Death-Row Appeal? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...Swiss concept of the citizen-soldier aims at the lowest possible degree of institutionalising military structures and at a maximum of immediate democratic control.” Compulsory militia service, the obligation to defend the polity on equal share, is the other side of the coin of semi-direct democratic participation rights. If you have equal decision-making power, you have equal responsibility...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Service with a Smile | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...this? Why did you feel like this was the best way to direct $35 million right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billionaire George Soros' Private Stimulus Plan | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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