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...lying if I said that I was anything but completely ecstatic to be inside the global headquarters of corporate-approved hipness. The studios were decorated in stainless steel faux-warehouse chic. The walls were even sprayed with graffiti. MTV hopefuls, the requisite mish-mash of minorities and uber-prepsters sat on a plush couch. I joined my fellow VJ wannabes and sat silently pondering the room’s aesthetic of exposed plumbing...
...imperious editor of Runway magazine, while I work at TIME, covering the book beat. Still, people in the fashion world will probably be interested in the (endless) complaints of the fashionable Andrea, since the book's author, Lauren Weisberger, used to be the assistant of Vogue's uber-editor Anna Wintour. Could any real editor be as unreasonable as the novel's Miranda Priestly, or as greedy for high-end booty from designers? Ask the other Andrea...
...committed individuals with a range of interests and pursuits. “The brightest” are, well, very bright. That is it. Before jumping on the anti-athlete bandwagon, it is worth considering what values we hold. At Harvard today it seems that “academics uber alles” holds sway. Which is shameful as there are so many skills in life of at least commensurate importance to the ability to glean every useful piece of information from a textbook...
...uber-search engine Google sent a shiver of fear down the spine of editors everywhere last week when it launched its automated news site. But while News.google.com is fast and complete, TIME.com managing editor Joshua Macht notes, there's just no substitute for the human touch...
...returns to a setting from his widely acclaimed 1999 debut, Ghostwritten: a dystopian and dysfunctional Japan, one-part William Gibson, two-parts Murakami-Ryu and Haruki. Like a cyberage Holden Caulfield, 19-year-old, fresh-from-the-countryside Miyake plods his way through Tokyo's cityscape, rubbing elbows with Uber-hackers, war veterans, playboys and yakuza-cum-spiritualists. Along the way he gets lost, kidnapped, chased, stoned, hired and falls in love. The pizza delivers him to his father-but, without giving away the twist in the tale, it's not the kind of meeting you might expect...