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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...winning caption that's clever but not really funny. But there are others I've seen - not mine, I hasten to add - that really are terrific and funny. I wish I could say mine were really funny, but I think they fall more into the clever category. You know: "That works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Once you become a finalist, do you wage a guerrilla campaign to get the vote out? Oh, an aggressive one. I'll email everyone in my agency, which has about 200 people. I'm careful to delete from that email group the two or three people that I know hate me, because I don't want them to launch some kind of counter-offensive. I'll email my friends. They'll email some of their friends. I don't know how far and wide that goes, but I email the people I'm in regular contact with. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...million. Industry swamis are presumably banking on kids and their grandparents streaming to the Pixar movie on a summer Sunday, while the Warner puke-fest will have exhausted its core constituency. But that ignores The Hangover's very strong word of mouth; people who might not have gone now know this is the movie de jour. (Everybody who needs to know about Up already knows.) And as Dan Fellman, Warner's distribution chief, told the AP, "Sunday's always good for a hangover." By tomorrow, when the final figures come in, there could be a photo finish for first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: The Hangover Throws Up | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...information out to contacts he had, sending them back my way." Over the weekend, Ward updated all of his online profiles. He uploaded a fresh résumé to LinkedIn, the professionals' networking site, and sent out a message to all 200 of his Facebook friends, letting them know he was looking for work. (See TIME's cover story on how Twitter will change the way we live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Twitter and Facebook to Find a Job | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Saturday, Obama's refrain was echoed by the head of other nations, who all called for greater global unity in the trying days ahead. "We know it is a long and difficult way," said Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, according to a translation of his prepared remarks. "But we also know how much a united Europe and an America true to its values can achieve together." A few minutes after Sarkozy spoke, British prime minister Gordon Brown said to his colleagues, "We are eternal allies because of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day Tributes and Reflection Conclude Obama's Tour | 6/6/2009 | See Source »

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