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...this is a messy dustbin of a language. You simply would not entrust the Russians with anything if you saw what a mess they have made of their tongue. It can be mildly interesting at times, but this too only for spectacle, the way people will stop and gawk at a train wreck...
...imperialism. As those who would have been King’s enemies in life pay lip service to his ideals, hijacking his rhetoric for their own purposes, it is imperative that the true custodians of his legacy see to it that the true King is not lost to the dustbin of history in favor of a whitewashed figment of the national imagination...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S LAST book wasn't supposed to be the next big thing. The Hours was an audacious, challenging, bittersweet literary novel arranged as an elegant theme-and-variations on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Cunningham expected it to end up in the dustbin of quiet critical acclaim, just as his first three books had. Instead, The Hours won a Pulitzer Prize, and Nicole Kidman, playing Woolf, won an Oscar for the movie version...
...companies that did business in South Africa. These students, along with the rest of the world, were rewarded for that passion. Harvard’s endowment, after sustained student and community pressure, selectively divested $160 million in companies operating in South Africa in 1986. Apartheid was consigned to the dustbin of history...
...since its 2002 debut, iRobot's vacuum cleaner the Roomba is a hit. But the new Roomba Discovery ($249) works even better. Its DirtDetect feature prompts the vacuum to spend more time on trouble areas. Smart sensors know when the sucker is stuck and help it dislodge. And the dustbin is three times as large. But in TIME's tests, the Discovery still got stuck on the edges of a rug and missed dust in corners. It's fun to watch, though. --By Anita Hamilton