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...Taken could have been a real movie, and a good one. It spices its torture-porn premise - a man trying to save his daughter from being peddled as the tender meat in a white-slave ring - with Neeson's stolid, solid presence. But the film promises so much more than it delivers that by the end, I felt like registering a complaint with the Obama Administration's consumer-protection squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken: The French Disconnection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Mars he had moved brand teams [e.g., Snickers, M&Ms] and the Americas team to the high-performance, horizontal model. He had willingly given those teams more responsibility and power, so his new team knew he was coming from a place of respect for company values--and a solid track record of results. Past experience had taught Michaels that functional thinking and hidden agendas are classic behaviors exhibited by nonhigh-performing teams. More than a "burning platform" was needed to counter-act old habits and the natural tendency toward standpattism. Michaels' solution was to take his team through an "alignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson Straight from Mars | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...basic plan behind that bookstand is still solid,” O’Brien said. “My business plan was in three years to have six tables and 15 to 20 low-income homeless people working there, spread throughout Cambridge and Boston...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Square Bookseller To Close Bookstand | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...Despite the apparent victory for Fairgrade, in the end both sides still have to manage their expectations. Gibson recalls an e-mail he got from one parent. "It said, 'My daughter's a solid C student, and if you don't change the grading scale, she's never going to get into the University of Virginia,' " he says, referring to the state's highly selective flagship public university. "I'm thinking, No, we're going to have to change the grading scale a lot." After all, the goal is achieving fairness, not fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Parents Fight for Easier Grading Standards | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...course, wasn't a ballot option (it was either Yes or No on various categories). But Sunday's vote was considered just as much a referendum on the President as it was on the text. Government officials therefore interpret the 20-plus point victory as a solid win. Opposition leaders say that the document's rejection in the eastern part of the country means that there must be some move toward compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia's Revolutionary New Charter | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

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