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Will CIT's failure relight the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In CIT Woes, Some See Restart of Financial Crisis | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...initiative’s success). For a time it actually appeared that HSA and Harvard would sever ties with Collegeboxes, and that a UC position paper had, for once, actually made a difference. But like a once-spurned lover suffering from the delusion that a mere year apart would relight the storage-lust lying dormant in the Harvard student body, Collegeboxes has returned. And this time, they have a “100 percent satisfaction guarantee.” Presumably as opposed to the zero percent satisfaction guarantee that they had last year. But the company’s protestations...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: College in a Box | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...tourists on licensed exchange visits to communist Cuba. But the trips are supposed to be for educational purposes only, so John figures it's best not to let the U.S. government know he's enjoying a Las Vegas--style show whose scantily clad dancers cast nearly enough heat to relight his Cohiba cigar. When a Tropicana photographer offers John a complimentary shot of him smooching his wife, he declines, saying, "Better not let U.S. Customs see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Havana: Preparing for a Mass Exodus--into Cuba | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...bagpiper paused, and someone asked us to all observe a moment of silence. There was a lot of throat-clearing and jostling. Someone giggled. My candle blew out and someone else, sotto voce, offered to relight it. After a while the bagpiper started up again. He was wheezing “America the Beautiful” in a stumbling meter. It is a song that was played ad nauseum in the weeks after Sept. 11—a song that was substituted for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Silenced We Stand | 10/1/2002 | See Source »

...online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have nothing to do with the quality of its broadcasts. If it wants to relight its ratings torch in 2004, here are a few suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to NBC: How to Avoid a Greek Tragedy | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

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