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Johnson, who is as plain as a vanilla milk shake, swinging from the pits? Not likely, and even Smith qualified his statement by saying that it's not so much pugilism but door-to-door drama that the sport needs right now. "We need to get back a little beating and banging, a little nudging," he said. "We need some of the numbers rubbed off the door. We need some of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daytona Drag: NASCAR Tries to Outrace the Recession | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...What is disquieting about the RBC figure is not just how large it is. More alarming is that the size of the revision is so big. How could 700 banks be added to the list so quickly? It is hard to say whether it should shake investor confidence in RBC projections or the strength of bank balance sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guessing How Many Banks Will Fail | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...chance that cutting-edge productions can—and will—succeed. Simply, we should try to cast some actors who do not typically populate our major shows. For many outsiders, the world of Harvard theater is exclusive and relatively confined. It’s time to shake things...

Author: By Jason J. Wong | Title: Theater for a New Era | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...over my shoulder onto the floor; and when I played with white children, I made them cry ... I knew I was different because I was a soldier, and although other children never knew my secret, I think they could sense it. I had dreams at night that made me shake and sweat in fear as the war buried inside me came alive again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sudanese Lost Boy, Found | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Russia needs foreign companies to plug a huge hole in Putin's economic policies. During his first term, Putin introduced modern tax and corporation laws. But he failed to spur the development of a business infrastructure that would enable Russia to shake its overreliance on energy and metals. Now, as the crisis starts to bite, the Kremlin is reacting by increasing its control over broad swaths of the economy. Through the state-controlled banks, it is bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts--including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Trouble with Putinomics | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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