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...There are rare times at Harvard that all the Asian groups get together," said AAA Cultural Committee Chair Jennifer W. Toy '01, who emceed the event...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Draws 150 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Sony chief Idei Nobuyuki pulled out every conceivable stop in his tightly scripted two-hour speech, starting with a five-minute intro from Stuart Little, the animated mouse who stars in Sony's forthcoming answer to "Toy Story." Idei also showed off a slew of new gadgets demonstrating Sony's new focus on "the power of hardware in a networked world," including the MS Walkman, a tiny portable device that plays digital music stored on Sony's 64-megabyte Memory Sticks (hence the MS), and a digital video version of the rewritable MiniDisc that lets you perform tricky cuts using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torvalds Holds Forth at Comdex | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

Walk into most any Wal-Mart in the U.S. and here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling With Your Conscience | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

TIME suffers from the same vision problem as the toy industry when it inadvertently elevates Eric Johnson, "professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business," to the level of toy expert [BUSINESS, Oct. 25]. As an independent toy designer, I believe emotion is the true heart of all toys. To become healthy again, the industry must return control to the real experts, the entrepreneurs, inventors and designers who are intrinsically connected to this emotional dimension. As long as the M.B.A.s hold the toy-industry reins and the stock market is God, Toys "R" Us will remain a boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Martha Stewart's success may be due to a keen business mind [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 1], but I'd say it's because she never discards anything. Once she told us not to toss the toilet-paper roll because it would make a dandy bird toy. Next I fear she'll say, "Wait, don't flush..." TOM MURRAY San Luis Obispo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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