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...Greg Garcia. "They're excited because they need something to work." UPN, meanwhile, has unsubtly telegraphed its hopes for Chris. It will run Thursdays at 8, Cosby's old time slot on the most profitable night of TV, in the hope of turning the small network from a perpetual joke into a rival to the Big Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Sitcoms | 9/17/2005 | See Source »

...oldest joke in the airline business is that to make a million bucks, you have to start with ten million. In a business with five percent margins even in good years, the combination of bloated personnel costs, poor labor-management relations, high fuel prices and the rise of pesky low-fare, good-service airlines like Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Bankruptcies and You | 9/15/2005 | See Source »

...author has a house in north London and another in Delhi, three doors from his parents'. His father was a shoe company executive, his mother the first female High Court chief justice in India. Her autobiography was published in 2003. "Yes, she beat me to it," jokes Seth. His next project: "I'll finish the Suitable Quartet - you know, The Unsuitable Boy, The Unsuitable Girl, The Suitable Couple." A joke, right? "I don't know," deadpans the author of very long books, "but it'll be something short. As a reader, I'm very impatient." As a great-nephew, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Affair | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

Heaven is the sweet punch line man has created for the end of his lifelong joke. To the interview subjects in Diane Keaton's documentary, it is even more. One of them says earnestly all people in heaven will be white, and a boy declares that you'll walk on cotton balls and eat pale food like marshmallows. And when you have sex in heaven, the offspring must be "little dead people," because you have to be gone to get there. A Salvation Army officer describes death as being "promoted to glory." Reunited with their life's loves, the elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Art, War, Death and Sex | 9/8/2005 | See Source »

...players lounge and had lunch with our coach and met up again with our dad, who we hadn't seen for a week. It's always fun when players come by and say hello. The player's lounge and dining facilities are spacious and luxurious. I always joke with my brother that the first few days of any grand slam is the "meat market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Open Diary: Day One | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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