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...pleasant little museum," says Young, who helped found the museum with the surviving members of the original Santa Cruz Surfing Club, which began in 1936. "People who come out of there, even nonsurfers, they come out with a big smile on their faces." And a cheap one, it turns out, only costing about $20,000 per year, money that's almost entirely used to pay two part-time employees. So the society contacted the city and found out that it would take $10,000 to keep the museum open until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. The Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Threatens the Original Surf City | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...Bischoff is just a pleasant old man from overseas who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. To look at media reports, the director who did all of the damage at Citi was former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. He is gone, but the problems he helped create are not. According to William Shakespeare, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." If that is true, almost no one on the bank board is likely to have a peaceful passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imbecile's Ball: Citigroup Dances Around Management Change | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...ballot. Asia's education systems, largely underfunded and over-reliant on rote learning, do little to instruct citizens on the power of franchise or the importance of accountable leadership. Still, as Thais - even those who initially supported the PAD protesters - realized, months of street demonstrations are not pleasant. The protest movement may have gotten what it wanted, but the country now faces a likely economic recession because foreign investors and tourists are spooked by the political instability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Dithering Democracies | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

Zimel was at the house on Saturday to greet Obama and his family as they arrived. "He's very pleasant and very gracious," says Zimel. "I started to call her Mrs. Obama, and she said 'call me Michelle.' A very warm family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Escape in Hawaii | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...people of Mount Pleasant appear to have differently. Vilsack was reelected to another term by write-in votes...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Selects IOP Fellow as Secretary of Agriculture | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

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