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...articles of clothing save his coconut-weaved hat bizzarely missing. As he stumbled naked and sunburned across the beach, he heard the whirr of a jet engine and watched his flight back to Harvard take off over his aching head. "Damn," he thought. "I guess there's no way I'm turning in that Social Studies response paper on time." Stephens' roommates, seated happily in seats 32A and B respectively, extended him a metaphorical middle finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...founded by Hawley called Friendly Planet, which builds and supports schools in Bhutan and Cambodia.  Hawley, director of special projects at MIT and a faculty member at the famed Media Lab for 10 years, says he received about two dozen orders even before the book was launched. Guess there must a market for really heavy reading out there...

Author: By Jason S. Yeo, | Title: The Book to End All Books | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

Johnson would have appreciated the double bind, but it's hard to guess what he'd make of Me and Mr. Johnson. Clapton adds a full band and as much as two minutes in length to some of Johnson's songs. The guitar playing is predictably spectacular, but in stretching the songs Clapton strips them of their intensity. His vocals don't help matters. He's ecstatic to be covering his idol, but his exuberance increases the disconnection between the music and the material. Johnson was one dark dude; when he sang, "There's a hellhound on my trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Different Moods of Indigo | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...prowess. But in the game of chess, it is important to predict the moves of one's opponent. When a player does not behave rationally, such predictions are hard to make. Viewed in this light, Fischer's antisocial, egomaniacal antics were ingenious psychological ploys that made his opponents second-guess their ideas about the grand master's chess strategies. Fischer's aberrant behavior was a crucial aspect of his chess-playing genius. TIM JOHNSON Eugene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 2004 | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...merits of Clarke's case were confirmed by the paper trail unearthed by the 9/11 commission's staff.) But the public seems to have tired of the Vice President's act. According to a Fox News poll last week, Cheney has an approval rating of 35%--and my guess is that the Administration has got the worst of the Clarke exchange. Indeed, Clarke won the moment he walked into the 9/11 commission hearing and apologized to the victims' families for his failure to prevent the tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending Out the Smite Squad | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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