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...settling into his chair at Vittoria, a homespun Torino trattoria where plates clank every time the nearby kitchen door swings open. But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old who is vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's $7.7 billion holding company, it is the perfect setting for a power lunch. "You know why I really like this place?" he asks, lowering his voice and widening his eyes. "Because it's fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

Since then they have performed around the world and won major competitions. They have learned near perfect English. After some bouncing around, they now live with a generous juggling aficionado in a mansion about an hour outside Los Angeles. And they have acquired a mentor, a brilliant, bombastic, shaven-headed, muscle-bound juggler named Jason Garfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up In the Air | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...that I’m a year into college, Dashboard’s new CD “Dusk and Summer” has been released at the perfect time—my standard battery of Dashboard has begun to seem so, well, high school. I needed a new infusion of saccharine emo to provide the soundtrack to my dorm room pity-parties...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Emo Disc for Every Season | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...part of the Groundlings [a Los Angeles improvisational group]. His development was one of those organic things. The director and founder of the Groundlings knew I was looking for a suit for Pee-wee to wear, and he had one. It was too small, which made it perfect. The voice came to me one day, and someone gave me a bow tie that was tiny. Then Pee-wee started to emerge fully formed and ready to be born. I spent many years trying to make the public think that Pee-wee Herman was a real person. I always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-wee's Small Adventure | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...feel like a lot of the reports over the past few days have been very sexist - just referring to my popularity as Amanda and her [male] fans. But it's not always just the guys who write to me. I'm not perfect, but I have a lot more to offer than my looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

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