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...Seeing the power of the Cup, I decided to use it to my advantage. Wanting to impress someone, but having no idea who my boss is, I headed to Ted Turner's office, who may or may not own my company. His secretary claimed he was out of the country, which I'm pretty sure was not metaphorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Day With The Stanley Cup | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Seeing the power of the Cup, I decided to use it to my advantage. Wanting to impress someone, but having no idea who my boss is, I headed to Ted Turner's office, who may or may not own my company. His secretary claimed he was out of the country, which I'm pretty sure was not metaphorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Day with the Stanley Cup | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Still, it's fascinating to watch the big-league companies like Electronic Arts, Activision, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft fall over each other to impress Expo-goers (who tend to be retailers and journalists; the 18-and-older bar to entry ironically cuts out a lot of the companies' customers, many of whom hang around outside the Staples Center attempting to learn the details second-hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Gates of Gaming's Babylon | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...women work in hostess bars, it's estimated that hundreds of thousands labor throughout Japan in what is surely a multibillion-dollar industry. For the salaryman customers, hostess bars, with their posh atmosphere, beautiful women and steady flow of drinks, are a choice venue in which to try to impress a client or close a business deal. Most hostess clubs employ Japanese and other Asian women, but beginning in the early 1980s, more and more began to stock Western women. Of all the hostesses in Japan, the highest paid tend to be pretty, English-speaking, Caucasian, blond. Lucie met every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...knows, you see it in John Kennedy's - Mother Rose off to mass every morning (if not off to Paris to buy clothes), and Papa Joe off to Gloria Swanson's bed in Hollywood. Bill Clinton's mother Virginia Kelley, though no saint in any sense that would impress Rome, had a saint's devotion to her boy, while his father died in an accident before Bill was born and his stepfather enacted the part of the muzzy, drunken male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Mothers (and Fathers) Make Presidents | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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