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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what fast looks like - and faster. Jones ran a 10.75 and finished seven meters clear. Greene, by contrast, came out of the drive phase with a fight on his hands. But the focus of this big-meet runner was never sharper, and he accelerated after 40 meters like the Ferrari he had been driving around Coogee, crossing the line in 9.87 sec. "He just destroyed us," said Boldon, who hung tough for second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Flyers | 9/24/2000 | See Source »

...cares? Last year a local techie in blue jeans and a sports shirt walked into Ferrari of Washington, a former furniture dealership located discreetly in a glass-and-brick office park in Sterling, Va. The buyer knew exactly where he wanted his new car to go: in his living room. Sales manager Ralph Cestero knew just what to do. He collected the $225,000 price on the 550 Maranello and arranged delivery. "We took the car over," Cestero relates, "and saw that he had removed a wall of his house and built a large ramp up to the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D.C. Dotcom | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...photographer, Walter Chin, who parked his Ferrari inside the building, told me to take my glasses off. This gave me a blank, squinty, confused look. "Perfect! Beautiful! Stay there!" he yelled, snapping away. I started to take my shirt off until he motioned me to stop. I watched a lot of Cinemax growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Hate Myself Because I'm Beautiful | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Jerry Bruckheimer loves guys who love cars. He produces movies for them, four-on-the-floor vehicles like Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise in a stock car, making two hours of left turns) and The Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Villa profited handsomely from the business. For himself, he collected cigarette speedboats and vintage autos and racing cars, from a 1957 Cadillac to a 1990 Ferrari. For his wife, he collected jewelry--a $22,000 Rolex watch, a three-carat $44,000 wedding ring and $9,000 diamond earrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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