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...they're still bad. The creators of the brilliant '90s Nickelodeon children's show The Adventures of Pete and Pete have brought their cartoonish, jump-cut surrealism to The War Next Door. The clever premise has a CIA agent turned car salesman followed to the suburbs by his evil, supergenius archenemy. It turns out, though, that the same team also wrote Snow Day, and unfortunately this show veers toward their more recent work, with flat jokes and obvious dialogue. At its best it's a dumb adult show that really wants to be a smart kid's show. Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Next Door | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Jusuf Habibie showed in Indonesia last week, by pretending until the very last minute not to want it. Habibie had been slipped into the No. 2 position of Vice President only 10 weeks ago by his patron of 24 years, the Indonesian strongman he slavishly referred to as S.G.S., Supergenius Suharto. The mere suggestion that Suharto's successor at the height of Indonesia's search for an economic bailout would be a man widely regarded as a free-spending eccentric shocked the bankrupt rupiah into a 36% crash. But Habibie (commonly referred to as B.J.) possesses the one quality Suharto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Isaac Newton was a supergenius of science who, among other things, invented calculus and deduced the laws of gravity and optics. Sir Isaac, it turns out, also made mistakes. The University of Chicago announced last week that Robert Garisto, 23, a physics major, recently discovered in one of Newton's calculations an error that had gone undetected for three centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Abstracts Fiber-Optic Feeding Frenzy | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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