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...secret that Brazil, especially under hugely popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has become a hemispheric counterweight to the U.S. And it loves to play tit-for-tat with Washington. Because Washington still insists Brazilians secure a visa before entering the U.S., Brasilia makes Americans pay for a "reciprocal" permit to get into Brazil; after the U.S. started thumb-printing foreigners in immigration lines after 9/11, Brazil obliged Americans to do the same. Those are understandable counterjabs. But while no one is suggesting that the Brazilian justice system has been keeping Sean from his father as payback...
...think my job is easy. I'm paid to see the movies you pay to see. But there are times when I wonder if I shouldn't have tried a less onerous trade, like defusing IEDs or chairing the Fed. Such dark thoughts percolated during the 103 minutes I spent in the company of Did You Hear About the Morgans?, a comedy about a married couple on the outs (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) who, after exchanging glances with a mob hit man, are relocated in the FBI's Witness Protection Program to a Wyoming hamlet where two earth...
...country to a halt, will likely disrupt many people's weekend road and rail journeys. Thousands more, meanwhile, are stranded overseas after Wednesday's collapse of Flyglobespan, Scotland's biggest airline. And with baggage handlers and check-in staff at some British airports planning a series of strikes over pay starting Dec. 22, it hardly feels like the festive season...
...Thank goodness, then, for unexpected gifts. In a ruling issued Thursday, London's High Court declared that a 12-day strike planned for later this month by British Airways cabin crew was illegal. The proposed walkout - over cuts to staff numbers and a freeze on pay imposed by the airline last month - can now no longer go ahead. The court's decision marked a "disgraceful day for democracy," the trade union behind the strike, Unite, said in response. But the 1 million passengers that could have been affected were undoubtedly relieved by the decision. And BA, for its part, said...
...TIME, has not been able to turn back the wall of populist anger against his firm and Wall Street in general. His claim that he and his colleagues were "doing God's work" was openly mocked. Washington is still contemplating ways to rein in finance-industry risk-taking, pay and profits. Expect more outrage soon as Goldman hands out huge year-end bonuses, which could average more than $700,000 per employee, just as Main Street's unemployment checks...