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...cost-effective strategy is to nominate either your cellular or your land-line service as your main communications link. Load it with the monthly minutes you need at the best possible price while subscribing to a bare-bones plan for your little-used secondary phone. If your land line is your primary phone, you can get a basic cell-phone plan from T-Mobile for $19.99 a month, including a free phone. That will give you 60 minutes to use anytime, plus 500 weekend and nighttime minutes. Be careful, however, not to underestimate how often you use a cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Dialing For Dollars | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

...large as this one, in which no true front runner has yet emerged to marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran of six presidential races whose bare-knuckled style matches his candidate's, argues that the early focus on one upstart--which usually doesn't happen until January--has created "the strongest insurgency in the history of politics." Trippi also argues that the converse is true: "Whoever becomes the Washington establishment candidate will by default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Dean for Real? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...Bangkok 8 is set in Bangkok is an understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers of Bangkok. Not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages, where 60 is a cop dying after he gets bitten by a cobra. Bitten in the eyeball. By a cobra that's high on meth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...time of minimalist drama, where two or four characters try to occupy a bare stage, it's a joy to set the set filled so profligately with people - 14 in the official cast, plus a few surprises. Each role is attractively embodied, and at the end, when the mystery woman materializes, she (lovely, grave Alice Selwyn) has the star quality the part demands. You'll just have to take my word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George and Jerry Take London | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...Gene Autry. Just a few more meters into the m?l?e nestles hole-in-the-wall outlet Golden Man. Its friendly proprietor, Preecha?his chuffed, pixie face framed by the type of wet perm favored by early 1980s R.-and-B. stars (think Lionel Richie)?sits cross-legged on the bare, concrete floor lazily sewing a cowhide saddlebag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Denim Jacket | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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