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...portray himself as maverick of the business world. And, on Monday, he made a typically bold gesture, announcing that he would lead an investment consortium to rescue the ailing U.K. mortgage lender Northern Rock. In an open letter to Northern Rock customers entitled "A Fresh Start," he pledged to save the bank and declared that the company would soon be known as Virgin Money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shareholders Balk at Virgin Bid | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...even as the takeover bid was welcomed by the Northern Rock board and the British government, shareholders small and large indicated they may block Branson's bid, a move that could protract efforts to save this high-profile casualty of the global credit crunch, and cause a full-blown political crisis for Chancellor of the Exchequer-turned-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who has already seen his reputation for fiscal prudence damaged by the affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shareholders Balk at Virgin Bid | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...brothers and a girl in the fifties - one of the brothers shot the other one apparently in some kind of a drunken game. Killed him. So the other brother and the girl jumped in the car to take the kid to the hospital, because they thought maybe they could save him. They ran into a tree and they were both killed. So apparently the ghosts haunted the place. So John asked me, "Do you think we could turn this into a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Talking with Stephen King | 11/23/2007 | See Source »

...deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, email (through POP, IMAP and Exchange), surf the Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real hard work. Eagle Bear Morgan, Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

...this straight: TIME passed up inventions that save energy, produce energy, make us safer, make our commutes easier, protect us from diseases, reduce our impact on our finite resources and bring knowledge to the Third World to name a cool new cell phone as Invention of the Year? Steve Jordan, Germantown, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

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