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...medium that magnifies the importance of things even as it shrinks their size, small gains loom large. Even allowing for a wide margin of shlock in the new season, some of it will be the shlock of recognition. With a gibe at anti Semitism here, a humorous insight into sexual hang-ups there, home screen entertainment is beginning to be a little less of a window on the void. It is becoming a little more of a mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...blaming our brokers all along? Lawyers working on contingency fees, that's who, and they are eager to help recoup the $3 trillion that investors have lost since the NASDAQ tanked last spring. For retirees who fried their nest eggs or boomers who blew their kids' college tuition on margin, the road to restitution could be as easy as dialing 877-CAN-I-SUE (where you'll reach some New York City lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Net: Broker Poker | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...week, he reversed that position, reportedly under parental guidance. In the same spirit, President Bush may want to recognize that the hostility he faces in Europe is directed not just at his policy positions, but also at the perceived arrogance of a Republican administration, elected by the narrowest possible margin, imagining it can simply negate or ignore everything that happened since it was last in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: W Goes to Finishing School | 6/13/2001 | See Source »

...including styling and reliability--that make a car attractive. "Companies like BMW and Honda," he says, "offer products that keep them successful." So does Porsche, where sales are soaring 16% so far this year. It produces a mere 48,815 cars a year--but at an enviable 11.9% profit margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Strategy: Mercedes vs. BMW | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...still those who doubted. Although the Conservatives were trailing Labour by up to 20 points, just as they have been during this campaign, the Tories themselves took comfort from the 1992 election results, when they outfoxed the polls that gave Labour a 1% lead and won by a small margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Antics | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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