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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...timber graders were also gangsters. You would have to play the same song several times a night, otherwise a gangster would say, 'Why don't you give me some face?' and show you the bulge under his shirt. My record for Careless Whisper is 17 times in a row...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grace Notes | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...wasn't the only spectator with a lot invested in the outcome. Seven seats away and one row back from Blair, three ordinary looking men watched, expressionless, as the new government was formed, only smiling briefly to each other when former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly was nominated to join the new administration. Brian Keenan, Bobby Storey and Brian Gillen were once denounced as IRA terrorists by Peter Robinson, another member of the new government; now they sat in the VIP section of the viewing gallery, well within reach of a British prime minister who would once have been considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belfast's Unity Is Blair's Real Legacy | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...runs out of money or relevance-and Shanghai boasts plenty of both. But each time I return, my favorite place in China seems less itself. Many residents, too, look disoriented: Wasn't a noodle shop here just a week ago, or a tailor's atelier there, or a row of lane houses just around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing Act | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Siemens One notwithstanding, managing the growing multicultural community is sometimes a diplomatic challenge. Last year, for example, a row broke out between American and Iranian engineers during a training seminar at a Berlin turbine plant. The Americans, a plant official explains, refused to work with the Iranians. To resolve the issue, the seminar leader removed the name Iran from a map of Siemens locations, replacing it with "Sandy County." "The Americans were adamant," says the official. "Even though we're all in one company, we can't escape global politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siemens Goes Mega | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...Supreme Court ruled in Coker vs. Georgia that the death penalty in rape cases was cruel and unusual punishment. Nevertheless, several states have retained old laws providing the death penalty for rape of minors - including Florida, Montana and Louisiana. Only one state, Louisiana, currently has someone on death row charged with raping a child: Patrick O. Kennedy, who faces the death penalty after being convicted in 2003 of raping an eight-year-old. His case is being appealed and could make its way to the Supreme Court, according to Richard Dieter, head of the Death Penalty Information Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Penalty for Child Molesters? | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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