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...most telling of the notes, which the Attorney General should have tacked to his wall, reads: "I read every word of your brochure several times very carefully and I want to tell you that it bored me to tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...guess that Ginzburg wasn't rolling in the dough. With the fourth issue came this flyer: "LAST CHANCE! If you act now, you may still become a Charter Subscriber to Eros." From the screaming capital letters and the shrillness of the italicized "now," even a teenager could tell that Eros wasn't a money-minter like Playboy. It wasn't sexy like Playboy either, and that was probably one reason I let my subscription lapse. Turns out, it didn't matter: issue #4 was the last to be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...conversations with Chinese President Jiang? in Texas. At some point, prosecutors say, the spy became his lover, and Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair - and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing jail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan?s intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife - also a spy - got even weirder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Steamy Spy Scandal at the State Department | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...tell you what is interesting: when we put Renault and Nissan together, we took a lot of items and we said, OK, what can we do together on these particular lines, and at the end of the day, we discovered that after six years we did much more than we thought. Even though we were not able to quantify them, because it is hard to say what is due to the alliance, and what is due to your own effort. For example, if you have your own purchasing strategy, how much of the purchasing cost reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Carlos Ghosn GM's Savior? | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...room before anything could get in concrete,” Menand said. “Everything was being talked to death.” Menand said that this committee will aim to “not get too entangled with outside discussion until we’re ready to tell people what we think.” Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, the other co-chair, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that the committee is currently “trying to produce some ideas to prompt and focus a discussion” rather than write...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen. Ed. Committee Will Have Undergraduate Reps | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

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