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...they're talking, it sounds as if many European leaders don't want to give their American peers much choice in the matter. German host Chancellor Angela Merkel said the group-France, Italy, Britain, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands and Czech Republic-had agreed to measures they will insist be adopted at the G20 meeting in London in early April. "All financial markets, products and participants including hedge funds and other private pools of capital which may pose a systematic risk must be subjected to appropriate oversight or regulation," Merkel said in a summit statement. "A clear message and concrete action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Calls for Tougher Rules on Global Markets | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Beck argues that when you're facing a budget shortfall in the billions, the extra revenue from an added day of alcohol sales is just a drop in the bucket. His opponents, however, insist it is significant. "At least it's a drop," says Georgia Senator Seth Harp, who introduced a bill proposing local referendums on Sunday sales. "Maybe it's even a cup full. But right now, I'd like to have a couple of cups full than nothing at all." (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Recession Doom the Last Sunday Blue Laws? | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...make you a diva. So, while for Miley it may be “all about the climb,” for us it’s really about surviving to the end of this dirge. Tweenage girls will probably love it. Those creepy guys in your entryway who insist on blaring out “See You Again” every night might even enjoy it. But for the rest of us, we’ll have to hope that suffering really does make you stronger. If so, watching this video is as good as working...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Miley Cyrus | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...doubt Scalia would insist that since abortion is not in the constitutional text, disavowing an abortion right would square Scalia and the other Catholic jurists with the Church. But not so fast; Scalia says abortion can be legislatively permitted or not as the people choose, and he will enforce whatever is democratically chosen. That's hardly what the Church is hoping from Catholic jurists, is it? (Read "Obama Tries to Renew Faith in a Faith-Based Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...listening tours will do," says Rob Malley of the International Crisis Group, "But at a certain point it will become better not to go than to go." Indeed, it may be better to hope a resting Middle East peace process can be resurrected in the future than to insist on creating the appearance of life when there is none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Netanyahu: Where Does Obama's Peace Initiative Go? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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