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Harvard immediately connected on a two point conversion and then recovered the ensuing onsides kick. All of Harvard stadium, shivering in freezing November weather, seemed mesmerized by the sheer improbability of what they were witnessing. Champi, with eerie calm and utter precision, once again marched Harvard down the field, and...

Author: By John F. Ince, | Title: The Game and The Race | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

"I had to explain the Bertelsmann culture and the Internet, the speed at which everything is changing and the importance of our similar thinking about the value of membership communities," recalls Middelhoff, stopping just short of delivering the sermon again. By the time they finished the $219 Phelps Insignia Cabernet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Napster Meister | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Before taking office, Middelhoff spent a year in the U.S., improving his English and trying to get to know every media bigwig in the States. He and AOL CEO Steve Case became good friends, and Case began to introduce Middelhoff around. Although he may have that steely look and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Napster Meister | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Adaptive-optics systems may sound complicated, but they pale beside another technological trick that will ultimately boost telescopes' power even more. Called interferometry, it achieves the precise focus of a truly huge telescope without actually having the thing built. Instead, light is combined from widely separated telescopes--the two Kecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

The opening number, "Sang-Froid," featured dancers in plain black pants and t-shirts and the music of Frederic Chopin. The moves seemed so natural, seemed to fit the music so well, that I wondered why I hadn't seen those exact moves in my mind every time I heard...

Author: By Krisa Benskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: (Mark) Morris Dancing | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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