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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wall and hear the coach talk to the team as they make adjustments and look at video. Phil Jackson wasn't miked, but it was fascinating to watch the interplay between the superstar of the team and the coach. If you're a coach, you need to have a key player buy into your system. You need to have trust, and here's Kobe, performing the same duties that Michael [Jordan] did in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee on Kobe Bryant | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...little deeper, though, and Citi's stress-test results look more like an F than the B+ the bank seemed to get. Among the 19 banks the government probed, Citi was found to have the lowest common capital ratio, which the government said was a key measure to protect against insolvency. What's more, Citi also got credit for a capital conversion it has yet to complete. Strip that out, and the amount of capital Citi needs balloons to nearly $63 billion, more than any of the other banks tested. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Citi's Stress Test: More like an F than a B+ | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...nine years, found that students receiving abstinence-only education had sex no later than those who did not. The number of sexual partners and use of contraception did not differ between the groups either. Another study, from Johns Hopkins, found that students who take virginity pledges—a key part of many abstinence-only curricula—were no less likely to have premarital sex than those who do not. More frighteningly, the Johns Hopkins study also found that students taking such pledges were significantly less likely to use condoms or other forms of birth control. The science, then...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Abstaining from Ignorance | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...recently stood alone against the entire Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to block impartial observers from monitoring the disputed border between Russia and Georgia. Thus, it is Russia that leaves NATO with no alternative other than military confrontation. She fails to acknowledge that Russia has played a key and improper role in supporting the opposition protesters on Georgia’s streets, and she fails to admit that the protesters refused to carry on any discussions with the Saakashvili regime except regarding the terms of the democratically elected president’s resignation. She fails to recognize Russia?...

Author: By Kim Zigfeld | Title: Russian Moves in Georgia | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...rebellion but to settle a power struggle between conservative and liberal factions. China's hard-liners had tried for years to derail the economic and political innovations that Zhao had introduced; Tiananmen, Zhao demonstrates in his journal, gave the conservatives a pretext to set the clock back. The key moment in Zhao's narrative is a meeting held at Deng Xiaoping's home on May 17, 1989, less than three weeks before the Tiananmen massacre. Zhao argued that the government should back off from its harsh threats against the protesters and look for ways to ease tensions. Two conservative officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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