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...beginning was the word, and the word was Napster. Sixty million Internet users around the world downloaded this software gratis, used it to swap their MP3 collections and saw that it was good. But the forces of the recording industry feared for their bottom line, and they did smite Napster with every legal means at their disposal. This was easy, since all Napster users had to pass through a central server and could be blocked on the way. Thus were 60 million sinners cast out of the garden of free music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bear Share: The Next Napsters | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

Then Barbour said, "I'm here to say You all have made me proud today. The wacko bashers now can't smite us: Our party's cured of Houstonitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICELY, NICELY | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...anonymous thief, a homeless ghetto kid in the imperial city of Agrabah, ruled by a flustery Sultan and his Vincent Price-y adviser Jafar. On the streets Aladdin meets the Sultan's daughter Jasmine, who has rejected every royal suitor in the Middle East. Love and ambition smite Aladdin; a thirst for adventure seizes Jasmine. In fact, each of the main characters seeks freedom: Aladdin from poverty, Jasmine from her regal confinement, the Sultan from Jafar's silky domination, and the Genie from an eternity in the lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aladdin's Magic | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...women and children. And unlike so many other Iowa communities, its economy isn't entirely tied to corn. Algona is the county seat, the home of a Snap-on Tools plant as well as some other light manufacturing, so it is more resistant to the farm recessions that periodically smite neighboring towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algona, Iowa A Time to Kill, And a Time to Heal | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...olive branch of peace she had extended to the Communist rebels throughout her 13-month presidency. "Police and military action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup threats by military officers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Tough Words from the Top | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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