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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...junior high yearbook I had a quote from a Spanish poet my sister had turned me on to, Juan Ram?n Jim?nez. It went like this: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." I chose it both because it expressed my contempt for my structured surroundings ? la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

Bossidy, the veteran chairman of Honeywell, was struck that among the shelves of business books published each year on strategy and leadership, none focused on the subject that obsesses successful executives: the essential grunt work of delivering results. So with consultant Ram Charan, Bossidy wrote Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Crown Business). Bossidy discussed the book with TIME's Andrea Sachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Larry Bossidy On Execution | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...does do is make loud, repetitive noises, occasionally while rocking back and forth. But I went anyway. And when the music teacher approached Nate and began to sing a song Nate loved to listen to, Nate looked down, stared at his hands and very quietly chimed in, "A ram sam sam, a ram sam, gooly, gooly, gooly..." The other moms rushed to hand me tissues as tears streamed down my face. I was listening to Nate sing. For the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Son | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Even with knives as sharp as razors, it takes time to skin a man. After 35 minutes, flesh was hanging from Ram Mani Jnawali's shoulders and cuts crisscrossed his legs, ribs, arms, hands, ears and chin. His legs were shattered at the shins, broken stumps marking where the bones had been smashed across the steps of his house. But he was still breathing. And yet his teenage tormentors kept questioning him. "Why don't you leave the Congress party?" screamed one interrogator. "How much do you earn? Where are your daughters?" But the 54-year-old, whose only offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...headphone jack or Line-Out of any music system (CD player, radio, tape deck), and RipFlash's software will convert the song into an MP3 file on the fly, as it is playing. Don't forget to buy the recording, however. Musicians need to make a living too. SPY RAM James Bond would have loved this crafty little item. Targus' Go-Anywhere ($80 to $150) looks like one of those highlighters students use to underscore their textbooks' juicy parts. But open it up and--presto!--you've got a digital storage device with a USB plug on its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Apr. 29, 2002 | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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