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...strain of anti-incumbent fever swept through the electorate Nov. 3 as cranky voters replaced two Democratic governors with Republicans and elected a Democrat to an upstate New York House seat that the GOP has long controlled. Maine voters rejected a law allowing gay marriage. Republicans sought to frame wins in Virginia and New Jersey as rejections of President Obama and a grim omen for his party in next year's congressional battles. But with economic angst and regional concerns dominant in most races, politics this year appeared primarily local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Election Day | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Shoppers may not jump at the early discounts. Many consumers are still in a frugal mind frame and can easily recall how retailers slashed prices up to 85% last November and December to unload huge inventories. At that time, shell-shocked retailers, rattled by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crisis at AIG and upheaval in the credit markets, pushed the panic button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Gear up for Black Friday | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...horizon—encourages a dizzying suspension of reality. Whether witnessing enemy horses blinded by mirror-shields, naval ships destroyed by suicide fireboats, or diseased, dead soldiers floated across to the enemy’s shore to infect their army, the film’s frenzied violence permeates every frame...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Red Cliff | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...members who were recently detained by police. Hundreds turned up in the blistering heat to pressure the government to bring to justice those believed to control law-enforcement agencies in Indonesia - referred to by many now as the "legal mafia" - who are suspected of trying to frame several anticorruption officers, whose commission is referred to as the KPK, on corruption charges. "We have come to show our support for the KPK and the people in their fight against corruption," says Yassin Abdullah, a student whose friends spent six days on a boat to attend the rally in the capital. "Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protesters Rally for Indonesia's Anti-Graft Unit | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...fight widespread graft in Indonesia, but also the long struggle ahead. The police freed Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, both currently nonactive members of the KPK, after more wiretapped recordings were aired on national TV that implicated members of the police and prosecutors in an alleged attempt to frame the men. "So far it is the credibility and image of the police and the attorney general's office that have taken the biggest hit," says Danang Widojoko, coordinator of the NGO Indonesia Corruption Watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protesters Rally for Indonesia's Anti-Graft Unit | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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