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...mobsters belong to the Yamaguchi-gumi alone. Everybody knows that the yakuza get money from bars and restaurants, construction companies, even private-detective agencies. But these days some of their principal businesses include securities trading and management consulting. They are increasingly, Jake Adelstein tells us in his gripping descent into the underworld, Tokyo Vice, like bankers "with guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Vice Guy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...blunt 11-story box wrapped in a palisade of vertical aluminum tubes. From head-on it looks like a silvery bar code that's been sliced by asymmetrical window slots. Anyone approaching it will be on a journey even before the play begins. You enter by way of a descent, a wide concrete ramp that slopes down to a glass-walled lobby, one story below ground, made of stark concrete and gray metal, where light swords hang like stalactites from the ceiling. From the time of Orpheus and before, a subterranean journey has had psychological reverberations. This one bears just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curtains up at the Dallas Performing Arts Center | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...radio and a BB gun, lifted off in the makeshift craft, dubbed Inspiration I. Airline pilots were stunned to see Walters float outside their windows, as the chair made it as high as 16,000 ft. (4,800 m) before Walters shot out some of the balloons. His descent was anything but graceful as the balloons struck power lines on the way down, blacking out a stretch of Long Beach homes. Still, Walters survived, enabling the FAA to slap him with a $4,000 fine for airspace violations during the stunt (later reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Ballooning | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Despite a descent into sluggish play to close the period, the Crimson still managed to escape with a 4-2 lead...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Cruises to Third Conference Win | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Despite a descent into sluggish play to close the period, the Crimson still managed to escape with a 4-2 lead...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Cruises to Third Conference Win | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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