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The officer, Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is a nastily smooth operator: oozing charm like pus, with a courtly tone and a preening self-regard. Known as the Jew Hunter, he calls himself a detective, trying to stop a war crime. Among his suspects are a French Jewess, Shosanna Dreyfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Stalking History and Hitler | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

The Swiss government, which yesterday put its 332.2 million UBS shares, valued at $5.6 billion, up for sale - a sign, market analysts say, that the government's trust in the bank's ability to raise capital has been restored - also expressed its satisfaction with the settlement. "We have managed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Swiss Banks Thrive After the UBS-U.S. Deal? | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

After the war, Scheungraber spent decades living a quiet, unassuming life at his home in Ottobrunn, on the outskirts of Munich. He ran a furniture shop, sat on the town council and even won a medal for outstanding citizenship. In 2006 he was sentenced in absentia to life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ex-Officer Gets Life for Nazi War Crimes | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

Closing the Energy Gap The problem ultimately is about not exercise itself but the way we've come to define it. Many obesity researchers now believe that very frequent, low-level physical activity - the kind humans did for tens of thousands of years before the leaf blower was invented - may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

On July 5 police cracked down on a demonstration by minority Muslim Uighurs in the city of Urumqi, capital of China's western Xinjiang region. Hundreds of Uighur young men rioted, attacking majority Han Chinese civilians with knives, clubs and bricks. In the end authorities say 137 Hans, 46 Uighurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Middle East, Little Outcry Over China's Uighurs | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

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