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...company and his son. It's sizable?though not the biggest office at STAR?with a bank of televisions on one wall and a window overlooking the harbor. The furniture is early modern, but the giant Frank Gehry cardboard chairs from his funky New York office are absent. The nondescript desk is uncluttered, and the shelves are weighted down with tomes about media and technology. There's a picture of James with former President George H. W. Bush and a picture of his sister Elisabeth's daughter. And the guy sitting behind the desk looks like he's maturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making of a Mogul | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Every morning military brass in a nondescript office called the intelligence fusion cell at General Tommy Franks' U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, look up at wall charts for any changes on the lists. These are what the war in Afghanistan is all about: the scorecard of America's most wanted, the bad guys responsible for the global terror jihad, the men whom the Bush Administration has vowed to bring to justice?dead or alive. One list runs down roughly 40 senior Taliban leaders, coded by color as someone defects or is killed or negotiates to surrender. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Osama | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

Harvard figures to move the ball effectively on offense against a nondescript Cornell defense, which has allowed at least 35 points in all three games this season...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Looks To Exorcise Big Red Demons | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...morning commute felt blissfully ordinary. It was only when I stepped off the subway and walked past a nondescript man nervously clutching a large bag, shifting from one foot to another, that my heart rate, which had slowed almost to normal pace for the first time in a week, picked up again. This guy, I thought to myself, panic rising in my throat, this guy could be carrying anything in that bag. The horrible possibilities danced though my head: A beaker of Anthrax, an explosive device, a gun. My blood pounded in my ears. I could die right here, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Life and the Futility of Fear | 9/19/2001 | See Source »

...Korean Association. A Korean Association member objected to a drawing in AAA’s annually published Handbook to Asian America at Harvard and Beyond that depicted a Korean Association representative sporting spiky hair, sunglasses, a dark suit and smoking a cigarette. Drawings of other Asian American students were nondescript...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Unofficial' Slur Angers Students | 9/18/2001 | See Source »

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