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...message. The company is paying a 25¢-per-share dividend, buying back $7 billion in stock, paring capital expenditures and canceling a scheme to keep paying Ralph Roberts after he dies. Greenberg now says Comcast is coming around, "The company is doing what shareholders want in a very smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comcast's Challenge | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Free: The Nina Simone Story Nina Simone; RCA Legacy; out now In 1956 a nightclub boss told the Juilliard pianist he'd hire her if she'd also sing. Smart idea. As this must-buy-now four-disc career set proves, Simone's reedy, dramatic alto made her a peerless interpreter of Gershwin, Brel, Dylan, the Bee Gees and herself (the scathing Mississippi Goddam). Warning: Contents are emotionally draining. Also life-enhancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...sparked by a stock crash in Vienna) and the Panic of 1907, which started when shaky New York City banks quit lending. We learned a lot from those scares--the U.S. Federal Reserve was created in the wake of the 1907 Panic--and some believed we were too smart to panic again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

National politicians usually have years to build these homunculi of themselves. The race to sculpt Public Palin was instant, and Fey had the sharpest chisel. Where Palin's campaign projected a smart, tough, folksy reformer, Fey showed a posing, in-over-her-head maverick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin vs. "Palin": When SNL Parody Becomes Campaign Reality | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...program to funnel money to struggling mortgage holders facing foreclosure. Though Kashkari is a Republican who gave $2,000 to George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, a spokesman for Congressman Barney Frank, the liberal head of the House Financial Services Committee, calls him "very knowledgeable and very smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whiz Kid, Hot Seat | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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