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The Association's President, Joey Berlin, has authored no criticism that I could find on line. His one published comment was a letter to the Los Angeles Times defending the sanctity of the press junket, in which the studios pay for reporters to come to Hollywood, pick up some swag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron's Avatar Takes Golden Globe Glory | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Many teenagers already are dying. Figures on choking-game deaths remain sketchy - a lack of awareness among police means that cases often end up being classified as suicides. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimates that at least 82 people died from the activity between 1995 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dangerous Pastime for Teens: The Choking Game | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Awareness will also help victims' parents overcome the stigma attached to having a child die this way. People frequently confuse the game with erotic asphyxiation, the sexual practice thought to heighten an orgasm. And they frequently assume that victims suffer from psychiatric conditions like depression. In fact, victims tend to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dangerous Pastime for Teens: The Choking Game | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Santander's Other Secret The Abbey turnaround came straight from the Santander playbook - and highlights the second key to the company's incredible success: software. First step, in goes Santander's proprietary Parthenon software, which organizes a bank's business by customer instead of by product line, as had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Santander's only stumble has been steering some of its private-banking clients into Bernard Madoff's Ponzi machine through its Geneva-based Optimal hedge funds. It moved fast to make good, offering to repay 100% of the sums invested. Santander says 94% of its Madoff victims have accepted, costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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