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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seekers. Yet, when asked about the voluminous Star Wars novels, comics, and video games, so loved by the fan community, he claims that they’re “not something that we track all that often.”So, if he’s not a slick, Hollywood soul-sucker, and he’s not a rabid fanatic, what sort of species is McCallum? He’s a rare chimera: someone who fervently believes that the films are legitimate art, but that their artistic merit comes from the very flashiness and simplicity for which they...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rick McCallum Reveals Next Steps for 'Star Wars' | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

Tikos' site has been buzzing recently about the intersection of technology and style. A recent post pointed out a slick new South Korean cell phone with fingerprint recognition; it can speed-dial 10 people by reading each of a user's fingerprints. The site keeps tabs on the latest hip iPod accessories, from colorful stickers from Germany's Shufflesome for the iPod Shuffle to a stylish new clip from PKOH NYC that keeps earphone cords from dangling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trendspotting: Messengers of Cool | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...Friday, a week after the arrest, Purdy brushed highlights onto the slick blond locks of a 58-year-old woman, brightening up her shading. She is one of many who drop by his shop to rifle through new books or chat with the man they have come to call...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shop Owner Arrested on Prostitution Allegations | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...company is showing some new verve, assembling an international team of marketing specialists to create what it hopes will become the shiny embodiment of liquid cool. Coke is introducing a mod series of bottles called M5 to try to perk up its 119-year-old cola while launching some slick new drinks to recharge a business that has been slowly losing momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coke's Quest for Cool | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...artillery battery swamped by a mudslide, still vainly pointing toward Pakistan 10 miles away. There are three or four checkpoints. Then a landslide announces the end of the road and an end to any visible relief effort. We leave our driver and are confronted by a black mud slick that extends to a peak more than 3,000 ft. above. "Are you looking for dead bodies?" asks a young man carrying a box on his shoulders. He points to the slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kashmir Aftershocks: The Plight of the Living—and the Dead | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

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