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...discussed his Up in the Air star George Clooney, who will be hosting a Hope For Haiti telethon on Jan. 22. "George doesn't even want to be here tonight. He wishes he was in a soundstage setting up 20,000 phone lines for a benefit for Haiti right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Makes a Pitch for Haiti at Globes | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...show, gleefully threw a grenade at the NBC executives for their handling of the Late Show fiasco. But the embattled NBC brass were generally spared from a night of continuing barbs about the pop scandal of the moment. By minute five, presenter Nicole Kidman turned the attention right back to Haiti and Clooney's telethon. And so it went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Makes a Pitch for Haiti at Globes | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Santander still has to prove itself in the U.S., however. In 2006, the Spanish firm spent $2.9 billion to buy 25% of Sovereign Bancorp, a regional bank in the northeast. By October 2008 Sovereign's stock had fallen 85% and Santander exercised its right of first refusal to buy the remaining 75% for $1.9 billion. Now it has to hope Sovereign is worth more than the peanuts Santander paid for it. "If a bank is strong, it is not for sale. Banks are sold, not bought," says Juan Rodríguez Inciarte, Santander's director general and an architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Read "Why Tony Blair Is Right About the Veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face Veils: Bans in Europe Fail to Take Hold in U.S. | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

...dramatic stiffening of rules, saying it has coincided with the conservative-led government's recent obsession with immigration, the place of Islam in French society and the current state of French national identity. Critics argue that conservatives are trying to stoke nationalist sentiment to gain the support of right-wing voters. "In recent years, France has stopped its offensive of exporting its universal values globally, and shrunk into a defensive position that views everything outside it as threatening and corrupting," Naulleau says. "That now even includes most foreign-born French people, though clearly not the big shots like [former president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the French Must Prove They're French | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

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