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...Letters such as this were common in the early days of TIME Asia, but we have perhaps let our standards slip a little since then. So allow me to end this note with the same touch of politeness that my predecessors used in the 1940s. Cordially yours, Michael Elliott, Editor, TIME International
...looking for the novelist Joseph Finder in a tony Manhattan restaurant, ignore the artsy-looking, bearded fellow slouching in the corner and search instead for the man in full executive armor: tailored wool blazer, black Armani tie and blue Joseph Abboud shirt. Finder, 47, uses that camouflage to slip in and out of the corporate environment, where he researches gripping thrillers set among the world of executive suites and water coolers. "Joseph Finder is doing for the business thriller what John le Carré did for the spy thriller," says Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, "moving it from...
...Shortbus is a nice, funny, romantic comedy-drama about relationships among "the gifted and challenged" in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...topless dance party. On top of the wooden tables usually reserved for laptops, Red Bulls, and bound books, the students moved awkwardly to techno for the short period before the “Anti-Fun Czar†(i.e., the late-late-night guard) entered with orange citation slips in hand. As one student discovered on a 24-hour study binge in Lamont accompanied by Chinese takeout and innumerable frappucinos, the threatening slips have no actual power. Even though the guard warned her that “the next slip will be your last,†when she received...
While discussing the work done by UNIFEM, a human-rights organization, NICOLE KIDMAN let slip to PEOPLE magazine that country singer KEITH URBAN, her boyfriend and date for the charity's 30th-anniversary gala, was "actually my fiancé." She said, "I wouldn't be bringing my boyfriend." ('Cause that would be tacky.) Urban's publicist later confirmed the betrothal. The affianced, both Aussies and both 38, met in January 2005 at a dinner given by the Australian government but weren't spotted together in public until July. Since then, they've been seen strolling quietly hand in hand...