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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wait. Is it possible that Wintour isn't so much a sponge-squeezing killjoy as simply ... an editor? She names decisiveness as her greatest strength, and the movie shows her making good decisions, rapidly and repeatedly. The first picture Wintour vetoes from Coddington's treasured shoot is distractingly fussy and rococo. Grace mopes, but the magazine benefits. At the film's climax, Cutler plays up the drama of Coddington's refusal to allow an appealing but not-quite-model-standard image to be digitally nipped and tucked at Wintour's request. It's lively storytelling, except that Wintour's suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The September Issue: Humanizing the Devil | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the ruling LDP party is slated to drop to about 100 seats, according to the daily Asahi Shimbun- an anemic one-third of what it held before Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the lower house and called elections in July. The expected reshuffle points to the DPJ's strength not only in cities, but also in rural areas that were long considered the seat of the LDP's electoral power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Gets Ready for Big Elections — And Big Change | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...after Thanksgiving in 2008, six months after his diagnosis, Kennedy had a party. He and Vicki invited about 100 people to Hyannis Port. Chemotherapy had taken a toll on Ted's strength, but Barack Obama's electoral victory had invigorated him. His children, stepchildren and many of his nieces and nephews were there. So were several of his oldest friends, men who had attended grammar school, college or law school with Kennedy. Family and friends: the ultimate safety net. (See video of Kennedy from the 2008 Democratic National Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnicle on Kennedy: Of Memory and the Sea | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...their speed and stamina were indeed affected by the Ramadan fast. But Tirelli, a professor of integrated sports technique at Milan's Catholic University, warns against reducing athletic performance to a series of statistical charts. "It's right that we respect the values of science," he says. ""But mental strength, determination and, yes, religious force, for one month's time, can easily overcome the deficit in proper nutrition." (See a TIME video on Lebanon's landmine soccer team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer Star Benched for Fasting During Ramadan | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...these offerings will get done," predicts Marks at Fitch Ratings. "A lot of them have similar business plans ... It comes down to the strength of the management team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New REITs Pounce on Distressed Mortgage Assets | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

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