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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That doesn't mean you can program a computer with Tymoczko's orbifold maps and have it spit out beautiful compositions. "I don't want to sell these maps as the royal road to composition," he warns. "They don't substitute for the hard work of learning how to move notes around." But they can help show when a new idea is promising and when it will probably lead to a dead end. "They might make an O.K. composer good," says Tymoczko, "but they won't make a good composer great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...were badly dressed and ill mannered, and I couldn't take it anymore. I thought this was really a service that humanity needed." Her firm, Polished Social Image Consultants, coaches executives for such companies as Prudential, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank. "The world needs a one-stop spit shine," she says proudly. "That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners Matters | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...many times or not enough in individual races. But the errors e-voting does produce often can't be caught because most electronic machines don't keep a reliable, independent record of the vote as it occurs. Asked to do a recount, a paperless e-voting machine will simply spit out the previous result. That, combined with the machines' vulnerability to tampering, says the American Enterprise Institute's Ornstein, has the potential to produce "a genuine, deep crisis of legitimacy," which is precisely what is happening in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard of Odd | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard students do not pee on the statue in spite of its significance. They pee on the statue because of its significance. Urinating on the monument to higher education in America is a bizarre attempt at self-affirmation. It says: "Not only do I go to Harvard, but I spit, nay, pee, on it as well...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Truth About John Harvard | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

...device up to an amplifier, a distortion pedal, and his finger, and began to strum his lips, dancing and pantomiming like a grungy David Lee Roth.The crowd was bemused but not quite on board yet.In between acts, Brener and Kollmer performed brief skits together, including a sketch involving a spit-take in which Kollmer was thoroughly doused, and a sketch involving a gross misunderstanding that featured Kollmer, pants around his ankles, hopping around with a penis pump and a roll of toilet paper.The next few performers got mixed responses from the audience. Performers Matthew K. Grzecki...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Stand Up Show Very Risqué | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

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