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...Analysts are concerned that the vote of no confidence from the government would cause consumers to flee the banks, taking deposits and forcing the firms to liquidate or be sold. Among the nation's largest banks that have not yet announced they have been approved for the government's TARP assistance are Synovus Financial Corp, M&T Bank, New York Community Bancorp, Colonial Bancgroup and the South Financial Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks Left Out of TARP Bailout Could Face Extinction | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...time doing just that). Her character is trapped as a young wife married to a fat old gangster, and Pinto’s performance as a girl trying to escape a sterile, abusive life is riveting.After meeting at the age of six, Latika and Jamal lose their parents, flee maniacal villains, and are separated by gangsters, industry, and even Jamal’s brother. They are a couple destined to be together and their love realizes the theme of destiny underlying “Slumdog Millionaire.” A title card that appears at the beginning...

Author: By Samuel E. Chalsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Slumdog Millionares" | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...them on one frightening night. Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," saw the ruling Nazi party unleash bands of thugs on Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, ostensibly to avenge an attack on a German diplomat in Paris by a young German Jew whose family had been forced to flee Hitler's regime. By dawn on Nov. 10, 92 Jews lay dead, among the 400 beaten, shot or driven to suicide by the abuse. Some 267 synagogues had been torched and hundreds of Jewish businesses destroyed, and 30,000 Jews had been rounded up and dispatched to concentration camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Confronts Its Dark Past | 11/8/2008 | See Source »

...Dora while he has worked here. "Our officials only care about themselves," he said, in the sort of resigned phrase that should depress any U.S. leader. "They are only in power for four years so they make as much money as they can and then plan to flee the country. What we need is a dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Wars: Iraq | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...democratic government - not to mention the presence of 18,000 United Nations peacekeepers - efforts to achieve peace have been stymied, in part, because of Nkunda's resistance. His rebel group recently took over a national park that's a sanctuary for endangered gorillas, forcing park rangers to flee. Human Rights Watch has pleaded with the Congolese government to capture Nkunda and prosecute him for war crimes. (See pictures of Congo's child soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Congolese Rebel Leader Laurent Nkunda | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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