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...whiteboard to trade shares of the al-Basra Bank, and then a moment later pull back. A female trader has just walked along the front of the room in elegant black boots and gold necklaces, chatting into her cell phone, pausing momentarily to scribble numbers in black marker on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad's Stock Market Goes Modern | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...story that had turned darker than anyone had bargained for, and it added to the bitterness against Mitzi. When she walked into her office the day after the suicide, Mitzi found a poster of Lubetkin propped up on her couch, and the words "Got the Message" scrawled in Magic Marker on her wall. Lubetkin's girlfriend had left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy at the Edge Excerpt | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

Along with Herodotus - hailed here as "a marker set down against the oblivion with which time threatens all human deeds" - and Thucydides, the earliest exponent of realpolitik, Burrow devotes the first third of his book to a long line of Greco-Roman historians. He goes on to discuss "the radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Past Masters: John Burrows' History of Histories | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...whorish.” 2) Christmas Party (Season 3, Episode 10) The forces of good and evil (Pam and Karen) unite in opposition against an even greater evil (Angela). Michael’s political incorrectness achieves a new level of hilarity when he tags his Asian date with a marker in order to tell her apart from her equally Asian friend. Best Line: Michael, “C’mon, we’re going to Asian Hooters.” 3) The Fiesta (Season 3, Episode 13) Oscar is welcomed back to work after a three-month paid...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nayeli E. Rodriguez | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

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