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...expenditures totaling more than 10% of his annual income on credit cards was granted a 20% income-tax deduction, and long-standing restrictions on cash advances were abolished. The situation was a bonanza for card companies and banks. Miniskirted girls peddled cards on street corners, offering free plush toys and kitchen knives to new applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House of Cards | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...irony is absolutely Steinbrennian: by all accounts Matsui is an all-around better defensive shortstop than Jeter. Moving the Japanese star to another position would be like buying a plush convertible and driving it with the top up. "You'd eliminate most of his talents as a shortstop-his hands, his quickness, his arm," says Mariners director Heid. "I don't suggest having any player make a position change, let alone one while making a country and culture change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Matsui Steps Up | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...rainy morning in October, a veteran oil executive named Jean-Noel Dairon showed up at the plush Hilton Hotel in Milan. Thanks to his 30 years at Total, now France's largest oil company, Dairon, 56, brought with him a vast store of knowledge about refining and marketing - but he wasn't there to drill down into it. Instead, he stood up in front of 100 managers of the company's Italian subsidiary and asked them some tough questions about the feel-good business trend of the year: corporate social responsibility. "Is this a new era of capitalism?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Total Makeover | 11/30/2003 | See Source »

Indulge those feline companions with sushi-style treats, available at trixieandpeanut.com under the name Izzy Yum Yum Kitty Kabuki Snacks. Have a dog's stocking to stuff? You'll find every kind of toy (tugging, flying, plush, rubber) at cleanrun.com Our favorite: the flying squirrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: Welcome To The Surf Shop | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful…entering the CIMC kind of makes you want to curl up in a ball on its plush wall-to-wall ecru carpet and sleep away your midterm blues. One member of the Center described the community at the CIMC as “the Episcopalians of Buddhists”—it provides mostly “meditation for the sake of meditation,” as instructor Matthew Daniel says...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meditation in Cambridge | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

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