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There is certainly something anxiety producing about the NBA list: it adds to one's nagging fear that one isn't reading the "right" books, that there are always hidden gems out there that a more astute and observant reader would have spotted. But that isn't the judges' fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Deserved to Win, the Other ... | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

A male boulevardier is usually there just to enjoy the view. But on occasion, on impulse, with no internal debate on the matter, we'll do a 180 and follow some passing knock-out. It's not predatory, just an expression of the atavistic male urge to be a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

The brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Blue Yonder | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

Within minutes, a thumping clunk beat the vehicle's left side. "Damn, an RPG," shouted a soldier. When they reached Objective Bud, a figure was seen scurrying through a window. The 3rd Platoon spilled into the compound, cutting off any escape. Cantrell maneuvered his Bradley to face the building. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Hot Zone | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

For a hard-charging executive like Alberto Ferraris, being named chief financial officer of a €7.6 billion company was a career-making moment - and he wasn't going to let a few nagging doubts stand in his way. Since the company was Parmalat, the Italian dairy-and-food conglomerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It All Went So Sour | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

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