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...that he was acting out of the desire to prove just how smart he was, how superior he was to his, well, superiors. Does he suspect them of suspecting him? The movie doesn't say, but one rather thinks that, in his arrogance, he did not. It doesn't toy with the possibility that he may have wanted to be caught, either. But it would have been logical. Where's the fun in running circles around the plodding counterspies for a couple of decades if the story does not come in the end make the newspapers, thus making them look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Mind of a Spy | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...Ironically, Kajeet's success may well have little to do with actual phone calls. The device is really a next-generation multi-media networking platform in a youthful and slightly edgy package. Or in other words, an alluring toy. A few weeks into my daughter's testing phase, I spotted her roaming around the house delightedly barking into the handset: "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." Under closer scrutiny, it became clear the phone wasn't even switched on. When I asked what she was doing she breezily replied: "I'm just playing. None of my friends have cell phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones for the SpongeBob Set | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

Favorite childhood toy: Lincoln Logs...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Scoped! | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...figures, who usually lose money to satisfy their sporting passion. But soccer's reach extends across the entire spectrum of Italian life. Following the initial outrage of the officer's death, La Repubblica columnist Giuseppe D'Avanzo put it this way: "If you don't want to break the toy that creates an appetizing consensus for many (in politics, business, media), you need to hypocritically pretend to not see what Italian soccer wants and knows how to be: a world unto itself." Sounds like a religion indeed. And as Italians know as well as anyone, managing the relationship between Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Red Card for Italian Soccer | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Favorite childhood toy: Connect Four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoped! | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

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