Word: 20th
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...services "The Daily Me," a play on the idea of daily newspapers. But customized websites are delivering something more like "the instant me"--real-time collections of just the information you want, which you can use to shop, buy a stock or plan a last-minute trip. In our 20th century consumer culture, it may seem almost too good to be true: the latest and greatest products, custom-made and delivered whenever you want! And how to pay for all this online bounty? We hope you've bought some Yahoo stock...
Hitler and the holocaust remain the 20th century baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...
...lesser sentence of two years because, said Superior Court Judge Henry Ridgely, he pleaded with Grossberg to seek help with the pregnancy. Both defendants could have received 10 years. Sobbing in court, Grossberg said, "I'll never be able to forgive myself for what happened." Today is her 20th birthday...
...meet Mao Zedong in 1972, China was in a terribly weakened condition and most vulnerable to the military might of the Soviet Union. But Nixon, with Henry Kissinger leading the way, went hat in hand, grateful for just an audience with one of the great tyrants of the 20th century...
...parent company of TIME Daily) is up 127 percent over the same period. Rupert wants to catch up, which is the main reason why News Corp. announced Monday that it would be offering 20 percent of its sexiest subsidiary, the Fox Group -- home to the Fox television network, the 20th Century Fox movie studio and the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to the public in a stock offering later this year. And this time, says Nelson Schwartz of FORTUNE magazine, Murdoch will get top dollar. "Entertainment stocks are very hot right now," Schwartz notes. "There's no Asian exposure because people...