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...firm's leading litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) has suffered a serious meltdown in Milwaukee - in the the midst of taking a deposition he has stripped naked and run out babbling into a snowy parking lot. Arthur has been defending an Agrochemical giant called U/North in a class action suit and has discovered a document that proves one of Agrochemical's products has, indeed, fatally poisoned a large number of its customers. He has wasted a decade of his life and more billable hours on the case than anyone can calculate and he wants to blow the whistle on U/North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Clayton's Ethical Dilemma | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Oct. 15, 2007 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...Darwinian time, a man was the one spearing the woolly mammoth. And it wasn't so long ago that a man was that strong and silent fellow over there at the bar with the dry martini or a cold can of beer--a hardworking guy in a gray flannel suit or blue-collar work shirt. He sired children, yes, but he drew the line at diapering them. He didn't know what to expect when his wife was expecting, he didn't review bottle warmers on his daddy blog, and he most certainly didn't participate in little-girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatherhood 2.0 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...There are no air holes.” But GM seemed unwilling to acknowledge that there was a person inside the polyester. Brittany L. Lin ’09, who learned about the gig through fellow Kappa Kappa Gamma member High, was allowed to don the suit on the condition that she limit her vocabulary to one word. “General Mills didn’t really allow me to speak—I just went ‘Woohoo!’ when people poked my stomach,” she said. Never mind that the idea...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing in the Dough: Woohoo! | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...purport to measure general reasoning abilities, including a limited ability to predict success in college compared to other measures, there is no justification for continuing to require it for college admissions. Bates College made the SAT optional in 1984, and other schools, such as Sarah Lawrence College, have followed suit. Harvard and other institutions of higher education nationwide should do the same...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: Ditch the SAT | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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