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Mary Todd Lincoln had no such luck, though--except, of course, to become the negative role model for every First Lady ever since and also, perhaps, for the First Husbands of tomorrow. If Mary's tortured ghost (and she believed in ghosts--they were among her only companions at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of Mary Todd | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

Well, me, for one. A few months ago, I bought a stake in a small, private company that operates a call center in downtown Manila. Call centers, which do everything from handling customer-service inquiries to taking purchase orders, are a rare success story in the Philippines. "It's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Returns | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

San Francisco-based Pacific Telesis has established a significant presence in several new markets. It owns a small computer retail chain and publishes city tourist guides. A year ago, the firm agreed to buy Communications Industries, which markets radio paging equipment and car phones, for $431 million. It is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Out Lines in All Directions | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps most disturbing of all, the new test measured only bedrock inability to read, with no attempt to establish the number of U.S. adults who, although technically literate, cannot read well enough to function as successful citizens. Such a measure of functional illiteracy, say Barnes and other experts, would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Losing the War of Letters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Icahn, who may have already earned a paper profit of up to $400 million on his stock, insisted that his purchase offer of $31 a share was not intended to force USX to buy back his holdings at a hefty premium. Instead, he claimed, his objective was a takeover followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeover Tugs-of-War | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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