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...breaking overseas, as the British band called Radiohead offers an innovative solution to the musical conundrum: listeners can buy a digital copy of their newest album for whichever price they may choose. Not only will this aid in pricing the music market, but it might mean we can be rid of the tyrants at Columbia and Sony forever. Here’s to a music world without middlemen. Here’s to the pot of gold at the end of In Rainbows...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Kazaa and Effect | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...best of a bad situation. "This man [Musharraf] is not going to let go." Says Barkat Jafri, a mobile phone vendor in Bhutto's hometown of Larkana. " If she can negotiate a transition to democracy it's a good thing. It may weaken him, and then we can get rid of him as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Musharraf on Hold | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...vote, on a scale of 1 to 100, on how awesome they are. At the end of the year, the ones with the most points are made homecoming king and queen, which, if I remember correctly, should immediately send their scores plummeting. If nothing else, it should finally rid us of Tila Tequila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Are Not My Friend | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...clunky pod that attached to a shoelace. Mark Parker, then Nike's co-president and now its ceo, called the pod "the tumor" and in 2004 clamored for something better. Donaghu's group presented a prototype with a tracking device tucked under the sole. "The thought was to get rid of the tumor by making it disappear," says Michael Tchao, the general manager for Nike Plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Runnings | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...doll on the Internet and suffers from a delusion that the doll is his real girlfriend. On the advice of a therapist (Patricia Clarkson), Lars' friends and family play along and treat Bianca like any other pretty new girl in town. To become Lars, "I had to get rid of all the posturing and ideas of what I think makes me cool or charming and turn up the more vulnerable parts of myself," Gosling says. In another actor's hands, a relationship with a silicone co-star might devolve into a farce or a gross-out comedy. But Gosling infuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oddball | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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