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It's easy to think of America's two major credit card companies as competitors in a classic tradition: Yankees vs. Dodgers, Coke vs. Pepsi, Visa vs. MasterCard. But according to the Department of Justice, that sheen of rivalry may be little more than a carefully maintained illusion. After examining...
Then, too, there is the matter of permanence. Memorials have always been useful to societies to establish and confirm common values, to send messages to posterity about what is significant and worth preserving. Statues, tombs, arches, pyramids, obelisks: all have stood for abstractions such as heroism, sacrifice and valor. A...
Spy TV turns its viewers into gods. "You watch people's most intimate moments," says New York University media-ecology professor Mark Crispin Miller, "and relish the illusion of deciding life and death." But the characters are unpredictable. That's the danger. Fox had a smash with voyeuristic bridal contest...
The cotton gin and the automobile were inventions that heralded a new age. What then, does the arrival of the Solarscreen System--which uses special tanning panels to create the illusion of tight abs--foretell? It was among the products introduced last week in Pittsburgh at INPEX, which bills itself...
A large part of the fascination embedded in Albee's play is due to George and Martha's apparent inability to separate. Through their abject loathing, both of themselves and each other, it becomes clear that at the bottom of the humiliations and insults there is a bond far too...