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...known Professor Twersky, but last Tuesday, seeing that tag, I felt I had an obligation to those that had known him and appreciated him. Having your course scrawled on a card in a yellow plastic holder is not a way to be memorialized; it is cheap, gaudy, insensitive, insulting. The fluorescent lights bounced off the pressed wood shelf, mocking the empty space as students rushed by, arms full of books...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Last Respects | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

...Golub's heir apparent and the architect of the company's comeback in cards. "But we are very much in the game, which is a very different situation from three or four years ago." Chenault still winces at the memory of a focus group back then, when the holder of a rival card that earned free airline miles declared, "I want to go with you guys, but you guys are so stupid that you're not offering this product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Express: Charge! | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...more positions than a Barcalounger. You can't listen to that old Sammy Davis Jr. tape at home because your kids will think you're a dweeb, but in the car, the audience roars as you belt out I've Gotta Be Me. Coffee steams from the cup holder, a bag of Beer Nuts sits open at your side, and God knows you're safe. The safety belt is strapped snugly across your body, and if that fails, the air bag will save your life--if it doesn't decapitate you. Little bells and lights go off if you make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Road Rage | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Beastie Boys interviews him in Rome for Rolling Stone. In the past few years he has opened 11 Offices of Tibet, everywhere from Canberra to Moscow, and last year alone provided prefaces and forewords for roughly 30 books. The 14th Dalai Lama is surely the only Ocean of Wisdom, Holder of the White Lotus and Protector of the Land of Snows to serve as guest editor of French Vogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOD IN EXILE | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...market is going to go up and up." So far, he's been right. He bought big, but he also bought big names. Alwaleed told TIME that he now owns about 5% of News Corp., the global media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, making him the second largest individual holder, behind Murdoch. Alwaleed also bought some 5% of Web-browser maker Netscape Communications, and a chunk of chip and cell-phone maker Motorola. The fourth finalist, another well-known American company, according to the prince, is still being bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCE ALWALEED: THE PRINCE AND THE PORTFOLIO | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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