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...their image right among the youth." He has no white clients, nor, he says, do his friends in other professions. He is sitting in Connect Telecom, a busy mobile-phone store run by his sons, where some whites, but mostly a procession of young men of Pakistani descent with slick haircuts and fancy sports clothes, buy phone cards, ogle the newest models and shoot the breeze in broad Yorkshire accents. He accuses one of rioting; the youth politely demurs but quickly leaves. "We used to be beaten by gangs of whites and just took it," Hossain says. "These boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers Side by Side | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...worst part of that permanent Washington is mere slick K Street venality - unelected money catering a hog's buffet. The best of the tenured Washingtonians, represented by Kay Graham at the top of her game, joined good human instincts with intelligent principle, and a certain thoughtful unfoolability about people (Richard Nixon, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kay Graham: The Best of the Best Part of Washington | 7/19/2001 | See Source »

IRONMINDS www.ironminds.com SMARTY PANTS Crisp writing, a clean design, fresh thinking. A younger and edgier - some would say rawer - Salon. Its handsome, slick design trumps other content sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of the Web | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Slick Sites BROKEN SAINTS www.brokensaints.com FLASHY It's a hip, fashion-forward animé adventure-cum-online literary event. The artwork, music and plot hardly break new ground, but the (almost) cinematic quality of the whole package is pretty cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of the Web | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Phantom, produced by SensAble Technologies Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts. A stylus attached to the desktop device transmits force feedback to the user's fingertips. Following a model on your computer screen, you run the stylus over the "body" of the virtual teapot in the air and feel its curved, slick exterior. Move upward and you sense the contour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands On | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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