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...crunched holiday season that has Brits collectively behaving like Scrooges, unmoved by the government's newly unveiled 20 billion pound fiscal stimulus package and a cut in value-added tax. And unless retailers persuade consumers that redemption - for individuals, for businesses and for the wider economy - lies in more generous spending, Britain's downturn threatens to be steep indeed. According to the British Retail Consortium, retail sales account for a fifth of the nation's economy, with the sector responsible for some 8% of GDP and employing 11% of Britain's total workforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Black Friday: Getting a Jump on Holiday Gloom | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...place from the Little Mango Bakery to the far more compelling Joel and Freddy's Extreme Cupcakery. I thought the bakery should switch its focus from empanadas and breadsticks to extreme cupcakes, for which we would charge $4 apiece. I would have my loan repaid in five cupcakes, assuming generous tipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cupcake Kings Go Global, With a Little Help From Joel | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...composed of approximately 15 students, Dominguez described his position on the necessity of immigration policy reform. He explained that reform is truly needed yet is highly unlikely to take place. “I don’t think that there’s likely to be a broad, generous, comprehensive reform effort, but I would like to be wrong, because I think that would be both smart and humane,” Dominguez said. His discussion of the necessity of immigration policy reform resonated with his audience. “I think that...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vice Provost Talks at IOP | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...People crowned him last week, the "sexiest man alive." Above all, I like the good-natured, hell-for-leather energy of the movie, the sense it imparts that no matter how much its silent-picture villains twirl their mustaches, its good folks, the people who represent the generous spirit of Australia, are going to win out in the end. Somebody is surely going to say that they don't make 'em like this anymore, so let me be one of the first to do so. The history of Australia is infinitely darker, more complex and ambiguous than this movie makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Epic Romance Down Under | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...defense also called upon Grace Rwaramba, nanny to Jackson's three children, to demonstrate that the sheik was a generous benefactor who was eager to lavish Jacko with gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson Settles Out of Court with Sheik | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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