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...appreciate TIME's decision to highlight the 10 most essential stories of 2009 [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. However, I question the failure to grant a spot on the list to turmoil in Israel. Though the peace negotiations remain stalled, there have been numerous developments throughout the year that have contributed to the quagmire, including the war in Gaza, the election of a right-wing Prime Minister and the subsequent expansion of Israeli settlements. This conflict has been one of the most important in the region this year, and it deserved a mention...
Skinner is the author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press, 2008), which was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. This investigation was supported by a grant from Humanity United...
...Leno were to have his NBC bosses on his show, he could ask them what he famously did Hugh Grant in 1995: "What the hell were you thinking...
...Bullock in The Proposal, Katherine Heigl in The Ugly Truth and Sarah Jessica Parker in Did You Hear About the Morgans?. All were obliged to take a course in sensitivity training, at feature-film length, to nudge them into the arms of, respectively, Ryan Reynolds, Gerard Butler and Hugh Grant - guys whose job was to wait around attractively until the leading lady comes to her senses. In each case, she's uptight because she can't love herself / get out of herself / trust her instincts / spot her costar...
Jensen, the second recipient of the award since its creation in 2008, will donate the $200,000 cash grant to HBS, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, where he was a faculty member from...