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...streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Working as both a horrors-of-war screed and a depiction of men under impossible stress, Lebanon is an unrelentingly claustrophobic nightmare. (Read: "Lebanon's Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venice Film Festival: Films with a Mission | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...drawn conservatives' ire ever since allegations of voter-registration fraud dogged the group in the 2008 election. So when an activist posing as an aspiring politician taped ACORN workers advising him on how to launder money from a brothel to fund his campaign, the knives came out. The scandal--along with recent charges that Florida staffers had falsified voter forms--has been a blow to the group, which works on behalf of low- and middle-income families. The U.S. Census Bureau dropped ACORN as a partner in the 2010 population count, and the Senate voted to strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...many ways, Gregory's reserve speaks for Detroit. Bing assumed the mayoralty in a special election in May, after the fall of Kwame Kilpatrick, whose promising political career was dashed in a sex-text-messaging scandal that led to a conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now Bing, 65, is facing a Nov. 3 election for a full term. To most Detroiters, Bing - despite his basketball fame - often seems a remote, unknowable figure, and the feeling is mutual. He only recently bought a home in the city and still maintains one in an affluent Detroit suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Dave Bing: Can He Stop the Slide in Detroit? | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

...Given the political climate, European Union leaders on Sept. 17 vowed to take action on what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls "the scandal" of bank bonuses. They agreed in Brussels to seek binding rules on the allocation of bonuses, sending a strong message to U.S. President Barack Obama and the G-20 leaders who are meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sept. 24 and 25 that they are serious about cracking down on profligate spending by financial institutions. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U. Talks Tough on Bonuses, but Will It Act? | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

After the safety scandal broke, Coke and Pepsi relied on small bottles and cut-rate prices to woo customers. The small packages boosted sales but hurt profitability for the companies and their bottlers. In 2005, Singh increased prices 40% to 60% and later introduced new packaging, like 1.25-liter bottles, which boosted in-home consumption. After a drop in sales in 2006, the Indian market began to grow again in 2007. "I can't complain," says S.B.P. Rammohan, owner of Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd., a southern-India Coke bottler. "It's no longer volume at all costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coke's Recession Boomlet | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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