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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watch the protracted spectacle of a company under siege, with its daily skirmishes and who's up/who's down scoreboard. Carl Icahn, the perpetual barbarian at the gate, launched a proxy fight. Can he and the shareholders vanquish Yahoo's board, opening the doors to the Microsoft hordes? We'll see August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballmer the Barbarian! | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

Obviously there's more potential drama in a man-vs.-machine battle than in a movie about how to get along with your computer. Favreau and the Wachowskis know this. Their films show their heroes blending with robot suits and race cars in order to vanquish the bad guys. And in doing so, they've provided plenty of standard action-movie pleasures. Iron Man gives you a guy flying over L.A., disrupting military aviation and confronting a villain in even larger metal couture. Speed Racer boasts enough auto-erotic car-nage to make Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the Future | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...Edwards sees it, the people standing in the way of progress are not Osama bin Laden or Kim Jong Il, not even George W. Bush and the Republicans. The evildoers that Edwards promises to vanquish - to the delight of most crowds; "Go get 'em, John" is a frequent shout from the crowd - are America's CEOs. "I see the CEO of one of the biggest health insurance companies in America making hundreds of millions of dollars last year in one year. I see Exxon Mobil making billions and billions of dollars in profit, record profits. The top 1% of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edwards in Iowa: Closing With Class | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...reveals herself in the form of a beautiful seductress (Jolie). He returns to Mead Hall declaring that he killed both monster and mother, but displaying only Grendel's head. Many years later, when Beowulf has succeeded Hrothgar as king, his land is threatened by a dragon. Now Beowulf must vanquish one last monster. And this time, it's personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...ahead, defense, vanquish your tenth and final offense and seize your destiny. It will only affirm another shopworn adage in this paint-drying Yale season: defense wins championships...

Author: By Alex Goldberger, YALE DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER | Title: Defense Key for Bulldog Triumph | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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