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...film-noir-ish feel, has been turned into an HBO series that is set to debut in September and star Jason Schwartzman. TIME talked to Ames about writing, his new TV show and why he isn't nearly as important as a war correspondent. (Read "Maile Meloy's Knockout Short Stories...
General Motors' foreshortened bankruptcy, which was finished with the emergence last week of a "new" GM, owes a thank-you to the Chrysler Group for blazing a short, quick path through the courts...
...free market through selling state-owned businesses, loosening regulations on foreign direct investment, and creating a plan to reduce the deficit. India achieved 6.7 percent growth this past fiscal year only on the back of intensive government spending by the previous Congress-led coalition. Public-sector spending provides a short-term stimulus, but a more open economy is necessary for sustainable growth...
...underappreciated assets." They set up their alumni for about a 30% earnings premium compared to high school grads, give a 16% return on every dollar state and local governments invest in them and are one of the best tools we have to pull ourselves out of the recession. In short, as Obama noted at Macomb, "community colleges are an essential part of our recovery in the present and our prosperity in the future...
...Bermuda Railway Trail is equally enjoyable on foot. Hiking the trail usually leads to detours off it, like to Somerset, a village accessible only by the smallest working drawbridge in the world. The short bridge has an 18-inch gap covered by a plank, which is removed to allow unsailed masts to go through. Somerset is also the site of the annual summer Non Mariners' Race, in which entrants build absurdly unseaworthy craft to lose the nonrace "in the most astonishing fashion...