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...started with a two-person feast from FiveLeaf that cost me about $70, including shipping--a bargain compared with what I would pay if I dined at, say, the New York City restaurant Daniel (or, depending on your point of view, a rip-off compared with Dominos.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Out-of-the-Box Gourmet | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own countries, pondering price tags and trying to decide if that new sweater or pack of beer is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.6 francs to 1[Euro]. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess: "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow The Money! | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

Accepting the new money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own country, pondering over price tags trying to decide if that new sweater or television set is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.56 francs to ?1. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess. "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out With The Old and in With the Euro | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...funny to those with personalities such that they would consider spending hundreds of hours learning about such obscurities. But a few pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” with well-known professors in puppet form playing the brain-dead celebrity roles...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phunny Physics? | 11/21/2001 | See Source »

...have been behind every major political assassination in the past 200 years. Ludicrous as it sounds, the premise is actually one of the better aspects of the film. It’s something that sounds great in the abstract, but ends up being little more than a Manchurian Candidate rip-off by way of “The X-Files,” and filtered with a satiric look at the fashion industry...

Author: By Matthew Callahan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Out'land'ish Trip | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

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