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Under relentless pressure from shareholders like agitator Nelson Peltz to sell its beverage business--yet unable to find a buyer given the collapse of the credit markets--Cadbury spun off its soft-drinks unit as the Dr Pepper Snapple Group earlier this year, leaving it once again a stand-alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Parting Sweet for Cadbury? | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

It's all the more striking when, practically midsentence, her tone and temperature totally change. We have seen Cindy McCain much more than we've heard her until now, and she has always benefited from the element of surprise. It's when she discusses her travels and work overseas that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Maverick | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

Despite its triumphs elsewhere, the question now is whether a story that deconstructs French social prejudices to hail the eternal value of culture can seduce readers in the U.S. and Britain. Barbery thinks her book has enjoyed such universal success because people everywhere are worried about superficiality overtaking substance in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muriel Barbery: An Elegant Quill | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

During a surprise visit to Baghdad last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sidestepped the question of whether the U.S. was considering an end to the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by U.S. troops in Iraq. "I'm not going to go into, obviously, the details of our negotiations," said Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Iraq Prosecute US Soldiers? | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

Given all that buildup, it may come as a surprise that the Democrats who will gather around the gavel in Denver are actually more united than perhaps at any other point in the past 30 years. When Obama accepts the Democratic nomination on Thursday night, he will inherit a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How United Are the Democrats? | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

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