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...York City private-investigation firm. Dietl, a former star N.Y.P.D. detective, hires twentysomethings to support the retired cops in the field. "They're whizzes on the computer," he says. "And they don't bring that civil-service mentality to the job." Although analysts spend most days behind a desk, Dietl aims to increase their spy duties. After all, who would suspect those fresh-faced kids of snooping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Gigs | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...part of Time Warner), was asked to create an inexpensive, late-night show for adults, who were tuning in to the network in larger-than-expected numbers. Thus was born Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a talk show whose host is an old Hanna-Barbera superhero, sitting behind a desk, bantering with an alien bandleader and asking such bewildered, real-life celebrity guests as Donny Osmond what superpowers they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Hey, Look! Manimation | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...moment of Thursday-night-lull weakness (not to mention moral weakness, according to the RIAA), I downloaded Clerks last week. I got through about an hour of its grainy black and white glory before conceding to the sullen stack of books that sat accusingly on my desk. Before long, though, I was sneaking back to the movie, just to watch Jay and Silent Bob dance in front of the convenience store one more time. Clerks had snared me for the night, but its magnetism had less to do with cinematic excellence than with the familiarity, the memories, that the movie...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The (Convenience) Store of Life | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...former expression has become an anthem for Mawuena M. Agbonyitor ’04, a social anthropology concentrator in Mather House. Sitting on her bed to avoid the work building on her desk, she listlessly flips through TV channels. “Cold, gray and tired”—these are the words that describe her day-to-day Harvard malaise. “I honestly don’t know anyone who likes it here,” she says. “Everyone is waiting...

Author: By William L. Adams, Brian Feinstein, Adam P. Schneider, A. HAVEN Thompson, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Cult of Yale | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

This leather desk diary, illustrated with cartoons from the New Yorker, comes in navy or red, and you can have a name stamped on the front cover. Cartoonbank.com also offers framed prints of the highbrow doodle of your choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: Welcome To The Surf Shop | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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