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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...costs in the document might have been controlled well enough to meet expense estimates, the rate at which the economy is coming unhinged always meant that the amount of money which was supposed to come in from taxes was always at risk. OMB now says tax receipts will drop a breathtaking 15% compared with last year. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forgiving a Mistake in the Federal Budget | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...TIME for getting it right on Afghanistan [April 20]. Cash-for-work job programs are the best initial solution in a country where Taliban commanders, financed by opium and other illegal activities, are buying the loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. This is one country where many insurgents would drop their weapons if someone paid them to do something other than fight. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor's likeness can be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...painful as Julia abducts the eight-year-old boy, locks him in her car trunk, ties him up and dopes him. And then she gets a maternal instinct, crashes her car through a U.S.-Mexican border wall and fights off a bunch of tough Latinos - all without taking a drop of her favorite beverage. At times Julia seems to have been made by a sloppy drunk, lurching down new narrative alleys, forgetting where it started, heedless to where it's heading. Indeed, Zonca and Swinton have both called it "an alcoholic film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

Last week,s big prequel, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which still holds this year's opening-weekend record with the $85 million, toppled an expected 68% to place second. The Matthew McConaughey rom-com Ghosts of Girlfriends Past won the show position with a more demure drop of 32%; but it wasn't falling from lofty heights, more stepping off a curb. Beyonce's Obsessed and the Zac Efron 17 Again filled out the top five. Less successful at reviving a dormant film form - the 1970s blaxploitation comedy - was the druggy Next Day Air, which took in just $4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Star Trek Conquers the Universe | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...exactly going to be stranded on the island à la Tom Hanks in Castaway? Oh no, my girlfriend is looking forward to it! She's coming out for the full six months and friends and family can drop in as they see fit. My aim is for other people to be ambassadors for the Barrier Reef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Southall: The Best Job in the World | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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