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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Everything about this small Scottish town stresses humility and unpretentiousness: its rugged, unadorned links courses, crumbling medieval architecture, quaint B&Bs and creaky-floored hotels. The hallowed Old Course lies on public ground--golf is forbidden on Sundays so families can picnic on the fairways. But now St. Andrews is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Investment of St. Andrews | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

Both men are best known for what they don't do. The star's most memorable screen moments are his suggestive silences in his roles as shadowy figures in films like The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Departed. The director's signature is his spare and painstaking re-creation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Bourne Boys Keep it Real | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger is the antithesis of a brash showman. At last January's Consumer Electronics Show, a high-tech hype-fest in Las Vegas, another CEO peddled a two-wheeler onstage to tout his company's new bicycle-powered cell-phone charger. The understated Iger, wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Mouse | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

Even though their “old” album, 2006’s “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” has yet to become old, the young Arctic Monkeys have, with “Favourite Worst...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arctic Monkeys | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Six years after his last release, Jimmy Tamborello (aka Dntel) is back with a new presentation of its eclectic and collaborative style. Tamborello, also known as one half of “The Postal Service,” only includes one solo track on his new disc, choosing to work...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dntel | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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