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...stand in his way. He had missed out on the opportunity to share similar experiences with his own father. He wasn’t about to be shortchanged a second time around.My siblings and I weren’t about to complain. On off-days we’d tap Dad on the shoulder and head to the empty playground behind our house for infield work and a game of catch, a request he couldn’t help but oblige. (Batting practice was sadly off-limits, due to the number of very fragile windows in the very near vicinity...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Little League, the New York Giants, and a Goodbye to My Biggest Fan | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...unmemorable stints in such films as Waterworld and The Jackal. He hates confrontation, and he's not arrogant enough to have ever told a director he thought he was being misused, but he did find that movies were a lot less fun than theater or Tenacious D, the Spinal Tap-ish band he created with fellow Actors' Gang alum Kyle Gass. "It wasn't about control," says Black. "It was about the co-lla-bo. There's great directors who treat actors like cattle, but I hated it, and I knew if I ever had a choice, I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Plan of Jack Black | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...talk and drive. This is also the first U.S. handset to stream stereo Bluetooth to wireless headphones. Once you have loaded up some MP3s or "rented" songs (from MTV's Urge or another Windows-Media-friendly, non-Apple music service), power up Motorola's $80 HT820 Bluetooth headphones. Tap the right ear, and a song starts playing. Tap the left, and the music gets quieter and you hear a prompt for voice-dialing. The headphones let you adjust the volume or skip songs even if the Q is halfway across the room. Unfortunately, the sound, compared to the same music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motorola Q Smartphone | 5/31/2006 | See Source »

...been quietly telephoning some of his biggest fund raisers and telling them to feel free to sign on with other potential candidates. And he wants them to put out the word, instructing, "Tell everybody I'm not running." Still, Gore is positioned better than just about anyone else to tap the enormous, near instant fund-raising potential of the Internet should he choose to, considering the following he has generated among bloggers and with the Net-based political organization MoveOn.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights, Camera, Al Gore! | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...like Cain the mark of that dust. Mohammed was a mortal man but visited Paradise and consorted with the realities there. Our deeds and thoughts were written in the Prophets consciousness in letters of gold, like the burning words of electrons that a computer creates of pixels as we tap the keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

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