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...When it does go public, the new entity will offer 20 percent of itself, a slice plenty small enough to keep investors rabid and demand high. No word yet on the price. For the parent Barnes & Noble, though, the jettison is already paying off. Upon hearing the announcement, investors promptly bid the company's stock up $4 to $41.25 in morning trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnes & Noble.com: On Its Own | 8/20/1998 | See Source »

...lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet or Japan? Every Buddhist culture has elements we'd rather not import. Those of us from non-Buddhist backgrounds did not lay down one set of cultural baggage to pick up another." True, but how much baggage can you jettison without calling off the whole trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monks vs. Monks | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...mixture of Jeff Greenfield's best-boy-in-class earnestness and Sam Donaldson's bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous Robert Foxworth), Freundlich orders up the Pope as his first guest and decides to jettison his longtime producer Gale (Megyn Price). He presents his Machiavellian decision as a favor to her. "You work here, what? 9 a.m. to midnight. When you go home, who's waiting to hear about your day? A cat. You are what the guys in our business refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: News Nuns and Media Monks | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...dozens of other innovations and debates, some small and some quite radical. A civil but ferociously felt argument has raged for the past few months around a book called Buddhism Without Beliefs, in which Stephen Batchelor, a former monk in both Zen and Tibetan traditions, suggests that Buddhism jettison reincarnation and karma, thereby making possible what he calls an "existential, therapeutic and liberating agnosticism." In fact, many American practitioners have already Batchelorized themselves by default. A good example is Ann Buck, 67, a retired businesswoman and teacher of Theravadan meditation. Although she does not reject karma, it plays little role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...genre cycle, directors jettison character and story for bustle and special effects--noise and toys. Here are four reasons movies aren't better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

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