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Over the past two decades, France has made major efforts to modernize its economy and change the attitudes of its workforce in order to make the nation more market-friendly and competitive in the age of globalization. But the one place where these changes to France Inc. have failed to take root is the boardrooms of the biggest companies, which in many ways remain the same smoke-filled old-boys clubs they were 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...their own cash or owning hedge funds or private-equity funds - had also been debated internally for months. But no matter what the White House spinners say, the heightened emphasis on taming Wall Street is a direct response to Obama's political problems in the Senate and throughout the nation. To give another example, the Administration first proposed a stand-alone consumer-protection agency for financial products last June, but only Tuesday did it leak that Obama considers the agency non-negotiable. (See the top 10 sound bites from Obama's first year in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Profit from a Wall Street Crackdown? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it," trumpeted Kennedy. Stevens responded, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation." The rhetoric was so florid, it was hard to keep in mind that they were talking about politics and political advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Campaign-Finance Ruling Good for Democracy? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...very personable, very funny,” Wagley recalled. “It was before we knew he had a future—I didn’t know that he had nation-wide, or even state-wide, aspirations...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate Race Heats Up Campus | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...Brown ran explicitly on a promise to be the "41st Senator," who would give the Republicans the power to block what he called "the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people," one that will "raise taxes, hurt Medicare, destroy jobs and run our nation deeper into debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mass Mutiny: How Scott Brown Shook the Political World | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

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