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...very impressed with your report on Asia's heroes [Oct. 10]. Sania Mirza and South Korean soccer star Park Ji Sung have boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...reassuring and charismatic swagger that got him elected. Sporting silky black knit shirts, he often uses streetwise vernacular in his chats with the city's beleaguered residents. Visiting with a group of small-business owners last week, he urged them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory-grilled rib-eye steak and praline bread pudding with Allen and President George W. Bush in the French Quarter, Nagin managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Orleans Do Better? | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...Here is the home of the morally void miscreant who hesitates to transgress not because of broad social implications, but for fear of personal consequences. For all you soulless, fun-loving spirits, this is for you: FM’s guide to Punishment at Harvard. What happens if I steal large portions of food/ silverware from the dining hall? According to Jami M. Snyder, a HUDS spokesperson, a first offense (such as the stealing of a large pie) will result in a reprimand. However, if there is a large or repeating problem (like a break-in) then the masters...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cruel Intentions | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

...burned to, how many different computers can play them, and so on. The major record labels all want DRM on songs sold online because they’re afraid (perhaps rightly so) that without technological measures protecting their intellectual property, vagrant Harvard students (and those at comparable institutions) will steal it and deprive them of revenue.They key word in the previous paragraph is “proprietary”: everyone has their own version of DRM. Many stores use a Microsoft standard, but Apple uses their own (called FairPlay), and that’s the one iPods are equipped...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: iPod therefore iTunes | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

While From Bags to Riches plans a British expansion by year's end, it might not be easy to break in: pouch-for-hire sites have already opened across the Atlantic. Be a Fashionista (be-a-fashionista.co.uk), an upscale site based in London; Secret-Boutique (secret-boutique.com) and Bag Steal and Borrow (www.bagstealandborrow.co.uk)--yes, the name is uncannily familiar--have all been launched in the past year. Dutch bag fans can borrow from Bag Habits (baghabits.com). When it comes to handbags, the status trap, it seems, is a global phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Luxe for Lease | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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