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...tired! If we want to preside over more than one screen, we'll open a multiplex. In one week, we had to ban Eminem from our home, coach our 8-year-old through the scary parts of The Wizard of Oz and trick the 3-year-old into believing that our unplugged TV was broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Under the Tree? | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...this pressure to be profitable," says founding editor Rich Schwerin. "We were working our tails off on projects that would never see the light of day." Nothing seemed to work: the site went through three redesigns, repositioned itself to focus mainly on e-commerce and even sponsored the big screen at Giants games across the street. But TheMan.com's attendance was disappointing, certainly not enough to keep the investors at Highland Capital happy. "People were like, 'Who are you? Another Maxim? Another Details?" says James Lombardi, site product manager and brother of co-founder Steve Lombardi. "We were trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking Out | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

DIED. MARIE WINDSOR, 80, longtime Screen Actors Guild activist and film-noir starlet famous for portraying independent if not always angelic women; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Best known for the noir classics Force of Evil and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, Windsor also starred in a string of films in the 1950s, such as Cat Women of the Moon, that earned her the moniker Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 25, 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Touch-screen technology is used by less than one-tenth of the voters in America. There are few complaints, and the prospect of a nationwide network of Automatic Voting Machines, with the flashing lights and soothing blips that Americans understand, is now in vogue: See your ballots. Pick your candidates. Confirm. Press Enter. Maybe they print out receipts in case the software crashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year's Voting Resolution? | 12/24/2000 | See Source »

...fiasco of this election has left many of us staring at the television screen, mouth agape, seriously wondering, If we had it to do again, would we fight the lines at our voting station as we did that Tuesday morning? The laws and statutes established to decide the outcome of a close election obviously carry no weight for either candidate. Let the people's voice be heard. TRACI ORTIZ Royal Oak, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 2000 | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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