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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that's how you get the clean lines of the Cheiron sound. When Martin describes the sound - "direct, effective, we don't show off" - you wonder whether he's selling a song or a Volvo. But maybe it's an apt comparison. His pop vehicles aren't the flashiest. But they're quality, and they get singers exactly where they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top of the Pops | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...what it says about Indonesia as a whole. Yes, the police couldn't, and often didn't even try, to save the Madurese victims. The center of Sampit is decorated with a plinth commemorating Indonesia's 1948 independence, guarded by a life-size plaster statue of a policeman?an apt symbol of their frozen response to the crisis. Two battalions of soldiers were brought to Sampit a week after the massacres broke out to restore order, but Madurese houses continued to go up in flames long after their arrival. "That's not our job," was the bored comment from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Darkest Season | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...there is an illusion of grand proportions at work. Any delegate expecting a vacation at Ivy Council conferences is sadly mistaken, and notions of unchecked spending on conferences are deeply flawed. Without disparaging our gracious, most recent hosts at Yale, a more apt description of Ivy Council conferences would be assembling students from eight schools on a shoestring budget...

Author: By Ean W. Fullerton, | Title: Skeptics Threaten Ivy Council | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...employees, as are administered at the CIA, but he doesn't believe that is the only answer. More promising, he says, are smarter computer-security systems that signal senior managers whenever an employee without a true need to know tries to access sensitive case files. "Invariably [double agents] are apt to wander into areas where they don't belong," says Webster. "We may not always recognize them when they belong--but we can when they don't belong." In the old days, he recalls, a librarian would report anyone asking for files that they didn't need to see. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Webster's Words | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...sorry the reference to DreamWorks wasn't apt; we're also sad that we missed out on a book filled with photos of hunky Russell Crowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2001 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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