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This is the way Boies rehearses for a critical oral argument: he is in a conference room in San Francisco, spending his Sunday afternoon preparing his appeal in the attempt to vacate a crippling lower-court order in the Napster case. Fueled on junk food (in his hierarchy of tastes, food is not far from clothing), he's thinking at times about another case that he will be arguing the same morning by teleconference to a panel of judges in Los Angeles. And for much of the day, virtually up to the last moments before he enters the marbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Me Boies! | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. I hate junk e-mail as much as the next person, but it is wise to sign up for automated alerts that tell you when there are great deals on places you would like to visit. Almost every site offers these, but I especially like the ones on lastminutetravel.com travelocity.com and qixo.com Instead of deluging you with weekly messages, they alert you only when fares reach target prices that you have specified in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleuthing Fares | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...When I read about a celebrity's failure to stay sober, I think of the addict out there who's reading the same thing and giving up hope. And I sometimes wonder if sobriety does anyone any good unless you can use it to help sell your junk on the Internet. And so I make myself feel better by going on melaniegriffith.com and ordering some goddess beads. I don't know long delivery will be, but I'm sure it's something less than 28 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Line One: Hollywood | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...pair are taking classes because Venus opened a piece of junk mail advertising a fashion school in Tampa, Fla., a few years ago. Tampa was too far away, so she signed up herself and her unknowing sister for the program in Fort Lauderdale. Venus insists that within a few weeks she will land a real part-time job in fashion. And within three years, the sisters plan on designing their own lines, with Venus making pret-a-porter and Serena doing evening wear--and neither doing sportswear. "Right now we're sort of famous, and while you have a name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Courts | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...provided the same high return as stocks, they are proving their worth this year in reducing a portfolio's volatility. Consider funds with intermediate-high-quality corporate bonds and government bonds; these funds are not only low risk but are also up an average of 6.54% for the year. Junk bonds, on the other hand, are down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 13, 2000 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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