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...Growing up??(as I did) in the province of Québec, you learn not just the joys but also the perils of bilingualism. A separate national identity, revolving entirely around "Francophonie," became a raging issue that led to social unrest, terrorism, threats of separation and a referendum that came within a hair's breadth of breaking up Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Plain English: Let's Make It Official | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

Enron's stock price was up??36% last week, despite the news that founder Ken Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling had been convicted of lying to investors and employees as the company sank into bankruptcy in 2001. Can't find this heady little stock on the N.Y.S.E.? Try looking on the "pink sheets," where Enron is now a penny stock listed as ECSPQ.PK. The once mighty energy firm, which traded at $90 a share six years ago, is selling for 15¢, up 4¢ on the day after the verdicts. It would be laughable if so many people hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enron Effect | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

Is it news if a man stands up??to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save Paramount? | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

Why do we need to come up??with a new label for kids who stay at home with their parents while figuring out what they want to do? We've had a name for that for years: moocher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 2005 | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Al Gore gave up??on Ohio in October 2000. Kerry's not walking away. And with the state economy weak, Bush's approval rating sank to 43% in a recent poll. Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton. Kerry needs a big turnout in Cleveland and Toledo; Bush needs it in the northwestern Farm Belt and the Cincinnati suburbs. Legal fights are already erupting over electionprocedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Election Day Guide | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

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