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...strip him of the power to approve laws. On Thursday, the Luxembourg Parliament voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure, which will become law on a second reading in the coming days. In the future, the reigning Duke or Duchess will only sign decrees to officially publish or "promulgate" pre-approved laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxembourg's Monarch Steps Back On Euthanasia Bill | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...them. She's phoning from a small village in the Kursk region, southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles - just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced call-center workers can process a request and grant pre-approval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her zip code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. But then, the Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Big Chill | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...after I got on the Lampoon and realized that that was something that I could do.” In his time, Downey, who served as the president of the Lampoon in ’73, says that no one thought of the Lampoon as a possible pre-professional experience, though it has since become a West Point for comedy writing. “Nowadays it’s an honest-to-goodness pipeline,” he says, noting that such television comedy staples as “Late Night with David Letterman...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lampoon Writers Ready for Primtetime | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...present day consumer culture, almost anything can be bought and identity is no exception. An artsy persona, like everything else, can be purchased—pre-packaged and custom-labeled—for a small price, of course. If the economic slump has wrought a minor hole in your leather billfold, not to worry: these surefire tips will ensure that peers and passersby alike nod and murmur approvingly, “He’s/she’s so artsy,” as you saunter past. 5. Non-prescription clear (read: fake) glasses These preferably oversized glasses will...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Six Ways to be Artsy | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...seeing growing numbers of European extremists turning up in the Afghan-Pakistan region again - often aided by networks created specially to help them get there," confides a French intelligence official. "This isn't a return to the pre-Sept. 11 situation, but it's certainly the closest to it we've seen since the fall of the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgian Police Break Up Plot Linked to al-Qaeda | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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