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...that hard to pull off, with so little time to prepare? I was feeling pretty confident. I was with a lot of confident guys, you know. I always felt I was safe with them. [Laughs] (See photos from TIME's 100 best records of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Kind of Blue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...other arguments for reform are perfectly good ones. It's a disgrace that 46 million Americans have no coverage. It's an outrage that insurance companies get away with the shenanigans they pull to deny claims when their enrollees get sick. It's true that real reform would enhance the economic security of working Americans. But let's face it: there are lots of ways to try to enhance the economic security of working Americans. You do health care first because the status quo is unsustainable. The most pressing health-care crisis is that we're spending way more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform Without Cost-Cutting Isn't Worth It | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

Third, there's no guarantee that financial entities will be willing to sell assets at fire-sale prices. With the federal government and Federal Reserve offering bailouts, many don't have guns pointed at their heads forcing them to pull the trigger on distressed assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New REITs Pounce on Distressed Mortgage Assets | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...According to some opinion polls, the NPD has around 4% of the vote in Thuringia, just below the 5% needed to get into parliament. With less than two weeks to go, the party could still pull in enough votes. In a 2004 regional election in the eastern state of Saxony, observers wrote off the NPD's chances of getting into the state parliament, yet the party proved the pollsters wrong and went on to win 9.2% of the vote. The NPD's attacks on Schall are just the latest chilling reminder that the far right is still alive and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Election Campaign Takes a Racist Turn | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...Spanish. Over the past few days, it has been the front page of most of the national papers, and headlines Thursday announced that Secretary of State for Sports Jaime Lissavetsky was "optimistic" that Pérez would be saved within 48 hours. But everyone remains tense. "If we pull this rescue off," says Peña Guara's Uriel, "it'll be a milestone in the history of climbing." Sadly for all concerned, it doesn't look as if that milestone will be attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daring Mountain Rescue in Pakistan is Called Off | 8/16/2009 | See Source »

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