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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...takes a lot for me to get giddy over an ottoman--although less so at 35,000 ft. And much less so for a flat bed and my own 21-sq.-ft. "suite"--a good 60% larger than my drone-class cubicle at the office. The amenities kit rivaled a department-store cosmetics counter and contained not the usual pair of amorphous tube socks, but ones with heels. From one of my four windows, Maserati champagne cocktail in hand, I spotted an easyJet plane, its 34 rows brimming with my people: coach folk. But today I had traded my peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for First Class | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

Instead, the gender debate, with its unacknowledged sexist undertones, continues to drone on. Sexism is akin to any other form of discrimination, and should not be tolerated. The greatest hope we can entertain is that Faust, by rising above this white noise, will effect positive change for the University and prove her detractors wrong...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, Brigit M. Helgen, and Jillian K. Swencionis | Title: Unsex Me Here! | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...lighting and signage are exactly the same as in a Sephora store, as is the black-and-white color scheme. Step out of the space, though, and the techno-pop sound track gives way to the drone of holiday background music, and you're back where you started--the second floor of a department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight For the Middle | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...producers—whether silent film’s D. W. Griffith or Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto—always come to lend their personal stamp to high-profile projects, and the level of specialization and differentiation in the market grows quickly. In the ensuing fragmentation, everything from ambient drone to hip-hop anthems enter into play.While “Gears of War” itself is hardly a masterpiece of subtlety—most of the game still revolves around shooting huge guns at bad guys—the mere fact that a company with Microsoft?...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PAYNEFUL TRUTHS: A Furor Erupts as Game Trailers Get Musical | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...opportunity available in the impoverished district - particularly on a day when they were due to open peace talks with the area's tribal elders and militants. ABC News reported Monday that al-Zawahiri was the actual target of the operation, and that it was launched by a U.S. predator drone, not a Pakistani helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Braces for a Backlash After Taliban Raid | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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