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...Arlene Vinson's favorite boutique in her hometown of Brea, Calif., went out of business a few years ago, her husband Norman--perplexed about what to give her for Christmas--decided that about 20 of the $50 bank-issued gift cards sold at their neighborhood mall would be the ideal gift; she could redeem them at any store in the shopping center. But nearly six months later, when Arlene tried to buy a $20.50 blouse with $2.50 in cash plus a gift card with $18 of unspent credit, the sales clerk said it couldn't be done, citing a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing-Card Trick | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...patrols can't be everywhere at all times, and Adhamiya offers the insurgency an abundance of targets and cover for attacks. The densely crowded district is an ideal setting for the new insurgent tactics that are evolving in the wake of the U.S.-led battle for Fallujah. Flushed from their hideouts in the Sunni triangle, many fighters have descended upon Baghdad and Mosul, taking with them a burning desire to avenge Fallujah and a style of fighting previously unseen in Iraq. The rebels, according to sources familiar with their operations, are no longer seeking small-town havens. By basing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Melting into the City | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...sets are made for the completist, not the critic. Someone, surely, will watch all 14 hours of the documentary extras and, perhaps, the three films on their own, then with the two tracks of commentary, which means another 20 hours. All of which makes The Ultimate Matrix an ideal gift for that obsessive uncle or nephew who has nothing but spare time. (We're guessing that the fanatical rewatching of action-movie trilogies is pretty much a guy thing. A lonely-guy thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fellowship of the Matrix | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...consistent with the kind of rural poverty that has inspired poor people and their champions throughout the history of Christianity. Today's crèche scenes, even the more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass on Christmas Eve of 1223 around a back-to-basics pageant that, as he wrote, showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Fresh off a year of designing this page of FM and so many others, Caitlin will bring her eye for the perfect glance box and the ideal cover design (plus her drawing talents) to the FM executive board next year. Don’t get in this Creative Director’s way as she pushes through with plans to make every page fan-freaking-tastic...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Guard | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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