Word: timely
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...three kids be?" He soon finds out; but what Bob undergoes is a day on the couch compared with what Chan suffers at the clumsy directorial hands of Brian Levant (Beethoven, The Flintstones) and arrant typing fingers of the screenwriters, two of whom are responsible for the all-time-awful Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. It's as if Jackie had committed some terrible crime, and this was the sentence. (See 10 Questions for Jackie Chan...
...migrants are managed by a Mafia-run employment system, the caporalato, that operates like a 21st century chain gang. Saviano says that those who object to low wages or poor working conditions are simply eliminated - and not just by a pink slip. "It's a military system," Saviano tells TIME in Rome as one of the plainclothes cops guarding him stands nearby. "The farm and factory owners employ the Mafia caporali to bring the workers. The immigrants wait on the roads, the caporali pick them up and take them to the work. If they complain, they get killed...
...This isn't the first time that Vietnam has detained staff from a foreign company after losing money. In 2006, the Vietnamese government arrested four employees of ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, for fraud after the government lost money on a foreign currency contract. To end the dispute, ABN AMRO paid $4.5 million to a Vietnamese state-owned bank, apparently to secure the release of the four Vietnamese employees who faced the death penalty. Many investors hoped this was a small bump on the path to further economic reforms, and it didn't slow Vietnam's entry into the World...
Four of the drone-fired missiles landed Friday in the Zarniri area of North Waziristan, killing three people. The area is near where a strike Thursday killed 12 people but is thought to have missed its apparent target, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. (See TIME's covers about Pakistan...
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