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...natural performer, he looked a bit like Leo McKern, who played Mortimer's most famous barrister, the blustery, homespun Horace Rumpole of the Bailey. The TV series ran in England, off and on, from 1978 to 1992 and repeated its success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Mortimer | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...They've heard all the football things. What can be more intriguing to them is what you do." So together we crafted a story from journalism, and then, with nothing but a dream, grit and a connection at the NFL Network, I went off to try my speech on famous football players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on Super Sunday | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...television's most famous odd couples appeared on the ABC show Fantasy Island: Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo and Ricardo Montalbán, 88, as Mr. Roarke--two dream makers at a remote resort in the Pacific. Montalbán, a champion of Latinos in the entertainment industry, founded the advocacy group Nosotros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...securities and lend to the burgeoning middle class. Mitchell, who became president of the bank in 1921, built City into the first financial supermarket. When everything financial turned toxic in the early 1930s, he became the most prominent scapegoat for the disaster. He was the main target of the famous Pecora hearings in Congress, was arrested for--but not convicted of--tax evasion and resigned in disgrace. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 put an end to the blending of banking and securities businesses that Mitchell had championed. City lived on as a chastened, smaller bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citibank: Teetering Since 1812 | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...peanut-butter products. Made at the Peanut Corp. of America's Blakely, Ga., plant on or after July 1, 2008, the products were not sold directly to the public but distributed to other food companies. Kellogg Co. has recalled 16 of its products, including items from its Keebler and Famous Amos labels, and said salmonella was found in some of its peanut-butter crackers. The outbreak, which may have contributed to six deaths, is unrelated to a 2007 peanut-butter recall by food giant ConAgra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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