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...course, there are a few things to gripe about. The rear seats have enough leg room for a couple of pint-size 10-year olds. Trunk space is cozy-don't pack more than an overnight bag or two. And VW's lousy reputation for reliability suggests buyers shouldn't expect anything like the build quality of a Lexus (though VW does offer a 50,000-mile warranty to ease one's concerns). For the price, however, this is one model that Veedub can credibly say rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Convertible without Compromise | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...already been tapped as a pitchman for Coca-Cola and Nike. More importantly, he serves as the charismatic icon of a continent's athletic ascendancy, just as Asia gears up to welcome the next Summer Olympics. Everywhere Jan. 1, 2000 [The Millennium Bug] was going to topple this electronic pack of cards, sending planes crashing to the ground, nukes leaping from their silos, electricity to a standstill and all of humanity back to a time much earlier than the 1900 our computers would believe it was ? So as Apocalypse Not struck around the globe people everywhere celebrated. Many cultures celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crumbling Certainties | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Bousman and Zombie are both members of an emerging and collegial band of horror auteurs--unofficially known as the Splat Pack--who are given almost free rein and usually less than $10 million by studios or producers to make unapologetically disgusting, brutally violent movies. If they get it right, there's a fervid fan base, composed mostly of people far too young to take death seriously, who will send those movies into almost gruesome profitability (some of the films have made more than $100 million). The group is loose knit, and other members include the director of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...ranks of the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, and that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws music students.These connections are not universal—but, in many cases, that is actually a good thing. For some students, the separation of extracurriculars and academics enables them to pack more diverse interests into their lives. A Literature concentrator does not need to see a connection between her classes and her a cappella group in order to have a complete extracurricular life.Where academic-extracurricular links exist, Harvard students are sharp enough to see and appreciate them. Where they do not, there...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery, | Title: A Lesson on Activities | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...don’t expect my fellow students to be a ravenous pack of insomniac news hounds, going to the Drudge Report and frantically clicking “refresh” instead of paying attention in lecture or section. In fact I hope that never happens because, if it did, Harvard would become an even more awkward and unwelcoming place (it stretches the imagination, I know, but I’m reasonably sure it’s possible having heard anecdotes about life...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Scarier than Nukes | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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