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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, for example - just a year and a half after the writer's suicide last September - ensure his spot in the pantheon of great 20th century authors? Or will it simply prove to be exactly what it is - an imperfect, unfinished work? Still, at least Wallace has his editor, and his agent, and his wife to care for his interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...more adult entertainment of all sorts consumed in Utah. It might just mean that there’s more online adult entertainment in Utah, because there’s so much less offline. 9. FM: Your paper mentions that free porn is an “imperfect substitute” for subscription porn. Would you elaborate on what this means?BGE: Imperfect substitute means it’s not quite as good, or at least it’s different. So what’s different about it? It tends to be less organized; a free-site user would have...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...internet has already proved to be an imperfect place for the film and TV industries to make money. YouTube, Google's (GOOG) video-sharing site, has always had the lion's share of the online video audience. Virtually all of the content there is free. Visitors do not watch advertising or pay a fee. NBC has tried to set up a large video site that does capture revenue. Hulu.com only has high-end TV and films. There are commercials that run on every program. But, a number of the advertisements running at Hulu now are free public service spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Content, Once King, Becomes A Pauper | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Legislating is always an imperfect process. 12:16 PM Jan 27th from TwitterBerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Naturally, this left the opposition with very few alternatives. The only plausible option was for the MDC to simply take the fight for democratic change to a new scene, to a new platform: an imperfect unity government. By agreeing to this compromise deal, Tsvangirai understood this. Mugabe is as much a part of the solution as he is the problem...

Author: By Brighton Mudzingwa | Title: The Bittersweet Zimbabwe Deal | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

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