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...Schwartz himself is not shy about defending his motives.“It’s kind of rude not to say ‘hi’ to people to begin with,” he said. “It makes your life a lot more pleasant [if you do].”“This is who I’ve been since 13—precocious,” he said.But after a CEB-organized Pep Rally featuring the popular remix-artist Girl Talk came to a premature end due to crowd control issues this...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CEB Duo Proposes Reforms | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...magnate Zhu Mengyi has given away $160 million in the past five years (and the octogenarian entrepreneur Yu Pengnian has set aside well over twice that for the provision of cataract operations). But the One Foundation is not about billionaires. It is about a celebrity who has forsworn a pleasant life of premieres and parties, and the ordinary people who support him with their pennies. It is for them, perhaps, that Li places an almost neurotic stress on the One Foundation's "transparency" and "professionalism." He says he wants to run the organization "like a listed company" and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...pleasant surprise, then, that much of the rest of Shadows at Dawn is a crisply readable history - four of them, in fact, with the Apache, the Anglos, the vecinos and the O'odham allotted two chapters each. Jacoby does a good job outlining the causes of the massacre from each point of view, whether historical, cultural or geographical. In some cases, maybe too good a job: the litany of abuses attributed to the Apache by their attackers as justification for the massacre reads less like a Southwestern Rashomon and more like Murder on the Orient Express - every hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre Explained | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Striped Pajamas” seems a strangely pleasant name for a film about the Holocaust, and yet such paradox is consistent with the movie as a whole. Based on the novel by John Boyne, it reveals the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp through the eyes of a naïve German boy. Throughout the film, the juxtaposition of childhood innocence with the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis during Word War II facilitates poignant reflection on the divisions created by racism and torn down by friendship.Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the eight-year-old son of a Nazi Captain (David...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...mean the end of oil. I don't believe it. On the contrary, I think this is going to preserve oil for chemical industries and other industries where you cannot substitute [anything else]. But when you see that you can drive an electric car and it is as pleasant as a normal car, what are you going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nissan's CEO on the Auto Industry's Woes | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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