Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, Edward sold crack cocaine for a living. He considered himself a businessman and made businesslike calculations of risk and reward. He was afraid rival dealers might try to rob him of his drugs or the wad of cash in his wallet. So he carried a 9-mm handgun. "Everybody had a gun," he says, "for defense." But now he has a bigger fear: if he gets caught with a weapon while committing a crime in his hometown of Richmond, Va., he faces at least five years without parole in a distant federal prison. That's why Edward...
That has users tearing out their hair. "This is one of those rare moments, like the birth of the Internet, when something can fundamentally change the way people communicate with each other," says Rob Enderle, an IM watcher at analysts Giga Information Group. "But there must be a standard for this technology to reach its potential. Otherwise, it's like you have to use two telephones...
...what happens when they decide to own a market. It's shocking behavior." Microsoft's response: passwords are required only for access to AOL's IM server and aren't recorded by the software. "AOL just isn't educated on what our service does," says Microsoft Network product manager Rob Bennett...
...turns out, that was the easy part. Night has fallen, and we are going to find another set of checkpoints in the dark. This time I behave more maturely. My Schwab partners are Dan Hubbard and Rob Sinclaire, a service-enhancement senior manager. Our Presidio guide is Eddie Freyer, a longtime FBI agent and director of SWAT-team programs. We stride along enjoying the cool, moonlit night. Rob and I discuss our mutual fondness for Tony Hillerman's novels, even imagining we are helping Joe Leaphorn track a killer out there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged...
...premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, NICOLE KIDMAN turned up the glamour (adorning her arm with what looked like a painful piece of jewelry), while husband and co-star TOM CRUISE dispatched with elegance in favor of studied nonformality. And surely ADAM SANDLER (seen here with co-star ROB SCHNEIDER) could have found a fresh T shirt for the premiere of his film Big Daddy. Are we really asking so much...