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...complicated case stems from the departure of Greenberg in 2005, when he was ousted from AIG, a company he ran for 37 years, amid an accounting scandal. While the case gets at the wacky bonuses and compensation structure present at AIG for years, the facts of it predates the mortgage mess and the company's current troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG vs. Hank Greenberg: Who's More Deserving? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Still, there are plenty of people who argue that Knox positioned herself in front of the firing squad. Why did she contradict herself, telling investigators that she had been present at the scene of the murder and that Patrick Lumumba, her boss at the bar where she worked a couple of nights a week, assaulted Meredith? She had originally stated that she'd spent the entire night at Sollecito's home. Knox's defenders suggest that a combination of exhaustion, after being questioned for hours, and police interrogation tactics may have led her to make the comments. Indeed, when Lumumba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Strong Is the Evidence Against Amanda Knox? | 6/14/2009 | See Source »

...more with what parents are doing when their children fall asleep. "It's parental presence," says Mindell, author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep. "Even if you're sharing a bed or a room, don't be present, either literally or figuratively. So don't be holding your baby, or nursing or rocking. Have them fall asleep three feet away. If they're slightly separated, they sleep much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

...problem with being present when your baby falls asleep is that they'll also expect you to be there to help them get back to sleep each time. "If you're rocked to sleep, nursed to sleep, fed to sleep at bedtime, you're going to need that every time you wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

...stethoscope to the current national malaise when it alludes, toward the end, to the toxic duplicity of insider trading. There's also a superrich mayor (James Gandolfini) who could be Michael Bloomberg with a bigger gut. But most of the film takes place in a fantasy present, where the Dow is at 11,000 - a relic of that halcyon era of 2008, when the movie was shot. And by emphasizing the cop-killer relationship, the picture loses the original's busy fresco of New Yawk types. Pushing, complaining, invading the space of the movie's stars, they were the graffiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelham 1 2 3: Riding into the Past | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

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