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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...concern that this would cause jealousy and destabilize our relationship. "Do it with someone you don't see every day," Ashton suggested. I explained that it wasn't the third person who might resent me for the rest of my life. Granath, in what I suspect was a ratings ploy, offered herself as a third party, at which time Cassandra proved my point about these situations causing tension and threatened a catfight. Despite all of this, Ashton pushed the menage a trois: "Afterward, you'll fantasize about it. You'll laugh about it," she said reassuringly, to which I responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spicing It Up | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...concern that this would cause jealousy and destabilize our relationship. "Do it with someone you don't see every day," Ashton suggested. I explained that it wasn't the third person who might resent me for the rest of my life. Granath, in what I suspect was a ratings ploy, offered herself as a third party, at which time Cassandra proved my point about these situations causing tension and threatened a catfight. Despite all of this, Ashton pushed the menage a trois: "Afterward, you'll fantasize about it. You'll laugh about it," she said reassuringly, to which I responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spicing It Up | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...Under normal circumstances, I would say "yes." But I believe that these plans are a ploy to attempt to distract us with what a lousy job the Bush administration is currently doing. It's George W. Bush with a hand puppet, saying "Look at the monkey!" to keep the American people from seeing the other messes into which he's deposited us as a nation. T. Roth Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should astronauts go back to the moon and to Mars? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Some critics dismiss coopting Chopra as a ploy. According to Gladden J. Pappin ’04, to whom Lurie pointed when asked to name an “enemy,” this is just a way to lure voters with Chopra’s popularity...

Author: By May Habib and Bari M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Lurie Lobs Political Bombs at Opponents | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...announced his retirement before, but the bulk of his fans still don't believe he's serious. Some think Jay-Z is trying to pull off an elaborate marketing ploy; others can't understand why he would retire from the hip-hop fantasy life. The truth is, it's his fantasy to pull off marketing coups. To coincide with his retirement, Jay-Z is taking a commercial victory lap that includes a final record, The Black Album; a Reebok shoe; a concert tour; and an autobiography to be published by MTV Books (which just might help get the video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In His Next Lifetime | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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