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...doom been so specifically fashionable or so ubiquitous. In big cities, there are upscale stores that sell virtually nothing but black hardware and electronics, black furniture, luggage and clothing. One such place in New York City is called Black Market, a punky East Village store just down the block from a still punkier black leather boutique called Fetisch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Allure of Darth Vaderism | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...prevent the Texas Air chairman from taking over TWA, ALPA Executive Council Chairman Harry Hoglander quietly approached Icahn with a highly unusual deal. The union said that if Icahn bought the airline, TWA's 3,500 pilots would accept a 26% pay cut in exchange for a block of the airline's stock. Icahn accepted the pilots' proposition and then concluded a similar arrangement with TWA's International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The two unions represent about 17,000 of TWA's 27,000 workers, and the total value of the wage concessions offered amounted to about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing In:Carl Icahn encircles TWA | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

REPUBLICANS HAVE 55 SEATS IN THE SENATE NOW. WHY SHOULD DEMOCRATS, THROUGH A FILIBUSTER, BE ABLE TO BLOCK JUDGES THAT 55 SENATORS AGREE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Barbara Boxer | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...goes to the issue of the importance of the lifelong appointee. Ever since our country was founded, we've had the ability to block nominations of the President that were out of the mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Barbara Boxer | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...that the Red Sox are not, in essence, a baseball team but are, rather, New England-like beans, cod, the Swan Boats, a martini at the Ritz, finnan haddie at LockeOber's, the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the day's last run at Mad River Glen, a jog around Block Island. And now I was wondering, even as the book hit the stores, whether this last premise was being rendered wholly false by the great fame and . . . well, transcendence of the Red Sox as currently constituted. Were we losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Red Sox,' Still? | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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