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Is a movie, these days, ever finished? Decades after Star Wars and its two sequels were released, George Lucas updated the special effects of some scenes. He said he was "completing" the films, although he hadn't told the hundreds of millions who bought tickets to the original movies that they were watching a rough...
...felt stupid when I first heard it. Nas was on my [PBS] program a few weeks ago. We did a whole conversation on the show, and it never came up. I didn't ask him about it because I hadn't heard it yet. But when a rapper drops my name in a song and says something positive, I'm humbled...
...that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George W. Bush had announced his selection, that a nanny he had once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that he had not paid some taxes on her salary, became the fatal flaw for the man whose...
...weeks ago, officials from the Chinese central bank met in the city of Guilin and asked "a lot of questions about what would happen if they ended the dollar peg and instead pegged the yuan to a basket of currencies," says a foreign banker who attended. "I hadn't heard those questions before...
...with their left hand over and over again as fast as they could. No matter what time of day they learned the task, their accuracy improved 60% to 70% after six minutes of practice. When subjects who learned the sequence in the morning were retested 12 hours later, they hadn't significantly improved. But when those who learned the sequence in the evening were retested following a night's sleep, they were an extra 15% to 20% faster and 30% to 40% more accurate...