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...guesswork built on the basis of a general knowledge of how the world operates and a specific knowledge of our various areas of expertise. We could be wrong, spectacularly so, and we accept the risk of being called to task when, this time next year, our readers wave this issue beneath our chagrined noses. But we think we'll be right, in general terms at least. We will be happy to take credit for fortunes made on the basis of our forecasts (including the aforementioned lottery outcome). But fortunes lost? Ah, in that case, dear reader, you are on your...
...fusion of a mature Ellen overcoming her basement nightmare and the precocious adolescent Ellen is both fresh and hauntingly familiar. There are the echoes of another spunky Dutch girl that get the reader's imagination working overtime. What sort of chronicle of deaths foretold would Anne Frank have written if she had survived Bergen-Belsen, returned to Amsterdam and moved back to her secret quarters at 263 Prinsengracht...
Cyber-squatting and fake web sites are indeed threats to honest businesses everywhere. In another case, the University sued a Korean company called Itempool Media because the company published books under the name "Harvard Reader." The case, which the University won, was justified because the company was publishing educational materials that might honestly be mistaken as coming from the University itself...
...think they--or you, perhaps, dear reader, with the collected works of Thomas Pynchon decorating your shelves and a Piet Mondrian print on the wall--know better. I do not claim that today's artists lack talent or brains or ability; many of them have all three in spades. But nobody, anywhere, seems to know what to with...
After her husband is sworn in, Cheney will return to her positions on the boards of Reader's Digest and AXP Mutual, a subsidiary of American Express. Citing time constraints, she has resigned from the boards of two other firms--including defense contractor Lockheed Martin--but will continue her association with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. And why not? At 59, Cheney has a life. "I have worked in some fashion my whole life," she told TIME. "It would seem as if I were turning into someone who was not me if I were to take...