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...bigger rip-off [at the Coop] is used books," Tseng said...

Author: By Rachel L. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamped Student Web Site Offers Comparison, Used Book Shopping | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...winter--something I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. I tried branching out and found a "millennium special" in Tennessee's Smokey Mountains on a site called vacationhomes.com But at $1,300 for a long weekend, it sounded to me more like a millennium rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Headache | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...exhibit spans three rooms and 20-odd paintings Rothenberg produced in her New Mexico studio. In Dogs Killing Rabbit (1991-92), two dogs rip apart a rabbit as the dislocated outlines of human faces look on in horror. Four horse legs, familiar imagery to Rothenberg followers, loom above. The violence of the scene is captured in the hot, thrashing colors: the magenta of the horse's hooves, the reds and browns of the bloody bunny. The presence of the human heads in the upper right corner draws the viewer into an active engagement with the painting: as you observe...

Author: By Sarah Rotman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blood and Guts: Susan Rothenberg's New Work | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Bill Gates in his talk with TIME [INTERVIEW, Nov. 22] clearly shows how the Microsoft Ceo thinks. When asked about giving computer makers the right to tailor the opening screen, Gates said, "That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones." Gates' logic in this case is faulty because of the metaphor he selected. The Windows operating system is akin to the printing press rather than to TIME magazine. How would TIME feel if there were one company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...when you buy a Windows machine, you're going to have no idea what you're going to see and how it's going to operate--that can't make sense for consumers. That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones. You'd get uptight. You can't have a distribution channel that is allowed to make your brand meaningless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates: They're Trying to Change the Rules | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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