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...sweat from her sometimes-naked body) and later as her designer. But mostly, by his telling, he functioned as her doormat. And, occasionally, her garbage can (one of his chores was allowing his sister to spit cough drops into his palm). "I find no excuse for Madonna's grossly unfair treatment of me," he acknowledges. She jilts him repeatedly - summoning him to New York and then reneging on her offer of a place to stay, or forcing him to eat half the cost of a set of paintings he purchased at her behest. Yet Ciccone is unable - or unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life with My Sister Madonna | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...have noted that there are two codes of rugby: rugby union and rugby league [June 30]. Rugby union was the sport closely associated with the white-dominated apartheid regime. Indeed, rugby league was banned during that period because it was seen as a subversive influence in sport. It is unfair to tar rugby league with the same brush as rugby union. Michael O'Hare, Northwood, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Even if piracy seems unfair, megafans aren't going to stop themselves. Record companies will have to learn that giving music previews away--just as Google gives away its searches--in exchange for ads, sponsorship and merchandise is the new business model. And if I wasn't sure of that before, I was when Skwerl told me that as we were speaking, a live version of one of the songs appeared in his inbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirating Axl Rose's Record | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...lighten the guilt load a bit. "There's a lot of parent-blaming that goes on," says the New York Obesity Research Center's Carnell, part of a British team trying to tease out just how genetics affect appetite, "and I think that's probably unfair. Parents are a powerful influence, but there are other influences as well--like genes." Recognizing that at least some cards in the obesity hand are dealt even before a child is born can be an important first step for parents and kids accustomed to thinking their weight woes are all their own fault. Recognizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighty Issues for Parents | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...think it unfair that others got more attention based on their off-the-court antics? Matthew Dale, AUSTIN, TEXAS There are some players who add a bit more just to get more p.r. I wasn't about that. My major goal was to hold up that trophy at the end, and I didn't want anything to get in the way of that. I kept it pretty quiet. I kept it simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Pete Sampras | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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