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Assistant Manager Wajeeh Anwar said he found the signs' appearance to be "a little hilarious" because, he said, Staples recycles all its paper, cartridges, cell phone batteries, and electronics...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: A Minor Scandal at Staples | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...pages) doesn't deal with the history of the Christian church. The mythology Langdon is decoding is that of the Freemasons (whose motto ordo ab chao, order out of chaos, could be Brown's). Langdon is summoned - dude is always getting summoned - to Washington, D.C., by a mysterious phone call that he thinks is coming from his old friend and mentor Peter Solomon, head of the Smithsonian. Langdon thinks he's going to give a speech at a Smithsonian fundraiser at the Capitol building. But when he shows up, there's no fundraiser and no speech, just Solomon's severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...little sickmaking to watch the undergraduates fawn over Langdon - as if! And I want to know who provides cell-phone service for Brown's characters, because they can make calls even when they're underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Last January, the same week Obama was inaugurated, Stein received a phone call from former University President Lawrence H. Summers, now head of the National Economic Council, asking if he would come to Washington to help work on the economic recovery plan...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Prof Returns from Washington | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Philandering spouses across France have been frantically pounding the Delete button on their phones this summer, after the country's highest appeals court ruled that steamy text messages are admissible as evidence in divorce cases. The judgment overturned a lower court's refusal to consider "Dear Pookie" messages as proof of a man's unfaithfulness because--are you sitting down for this, ladies?--doing so would have violated his right to privacy. The appellate court ruled that the texts could be used since they were not "obtained by violence or fraud." (The wife found them on a phone her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounds 4 Divorce | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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