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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...described, or else I would feel a bit offended [Nov. 19]. Although I use the website, I don't finish all my sentences with 10 exclamation points, and I still appreciate a good dinner with wine. Many Facebook members don't attach importance to popularity but just want to entertain themselves. They have enough personality to know they are not losers if their contact list doesn't beat all the records. MySpace and Facebook are part of a humanizing revolution of communication in a society that has already lost its traditional sense of community. Chloé Marquet, PARIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leadership vs. Loyalty | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...become novelists? -Dan Munoz, St. Louis, Miss. Do your homework. If you are lacking in any of the nuts and bolts skills, structure, punctuation or grammar-study up. Also, write what you read. You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you it's not going to entertain anyone else. Join Romance Writers of America. And don't say, 'I'm going to write when I find the time'-that's the most irritating thing I ever hear. Nobody finds time, you have to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Nora Roberts | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...will continue to be a thoughtful magazine with an independent view, not adhering to any sort of orthodoxy or program, willing to publish things that might not be published elsewhere, that not only entertain but make you think. That’s what I like about it. That’s what was really its original intention...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns and Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: MOVING THE ATLANTIC | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Bush's aides say the President is flexible and willing to entertain a variety of possible routes forward. "It's going to take some time to figure out where this ends up," says press secretary Dana Perino. She says the White House is resisting, "a black-and-white answer to what is a very gray situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for a Pakistan Strategy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...minstrel show encourages the childish perception of Native Americans as uncivilized, reducing them to a ridiculous archetype. His performance also featured a “traditional” dance that was actually exaggerated for the crowd’s benefit. When Native American ways are embellished or altered to entertain the masses, the descriptor “Jim Crow” leaps to mind sooner than “honor...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RIP Chief Illiniwek | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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