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What a coincidence: Almost exactly 60 years after the end of World War II in Europe, the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, is on TIME's cover. I imagine he is there not only to attract readers but also to symbolize that the once mighty "evil empire" eventually collapsed. May the Force stay with...
...Citigroup. In 2000, U.S. environmental activists from RAN began campaigning against the bank's funding of old-growth logging projects and a controversial new oil pipeline through an Ecuadorian ecological preserve. RAN placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune labeling CEO Sandy Weill an environmental villain. Citigroup started meeting with RAN and last year announced that it would apply the Equator Principles to its business. The bank committed to banning investment in firms that logged primary tropical forests, and it pledged to invest in renewable-energy projects...
...regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage.) But he gained his greatest fame playing the Riddler, the cackling, green-clad villain on the campy 1960s TV series Batman. Most recently, he won critical acclaim for his dead-on impersonation of George Burns in the Broadway show Say Goodnight, Gracie...
...Jong Il's idiosyncrasies can overshadow his atrociousness. With his bouffant hair, platform shoes, "pleasure groups" of attractive young women, and lusty appetite for fine wine and sushi, the North Korean dictator sometimes comes across more like a movie villain than a true menace. In Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, veteran journalist Jasper Becker dutifully recounts the strange tales of Kim's extravagance. But the author is less concerned with the Dear Leader's personality quirks than with the murder and misery under Kim's brutal rule. To Becker, Kim Jong...
...Contreras who politicians have to please, the man who controls the money and the clout of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. He’s the man the Los Angeles Times recently compared, however subtly, to Vito Corleone. This Contreras sounds like the villain from “On the Watefront”: the quintessential union boss...