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...torpid summer night in Florida, the kind made for watching DVD movies, lying motionless in refrigerated living rooms. Yet here is Eddie Ventrice, 43, tie off, shirt untucked, sprawled in the VIP section of the Muvico Palace theater for a 7:05 showing of War of the Worlds. Sure, he's got a 60-in. set at home as well as a 40-in. flat screen, not to mention a wife and kids. Sure, his ticket cost $18. But here he gets to hang with two buddies and watch killer aliens on the big screen. There's a lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Luxury the Ticket? | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...while the honorary appointment might not garner Berwick VIP treatment in the U.S., it catapults him to one of the most distinguished echelons of British society...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Health Expert Knighted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...felt like a VIP,” said rising high-school senior Alejandro Rojas...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Band Plays Loker Gigs | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...concerned that the system could be used to spy on consumers, with a promise not to track cardholders' movements or sell their personal information. But the company, which relies on Lockheed Martin technology for its biometric identification cards, is not pitching itself as a cure-all. Says VIP founder Steven Brill: "This is not risk elimination. It's risk management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Security Clearance | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Snappily attired in a dark blue oxford suit, a blue-and white bow tie and a black Borsalino, Vladimir Horowitz sits in a private VIP airport lounge, waiting to board his flight to Washington. His wife Wanda is wearing a new silk dress and a mink coat for the occasion. "It will be nice to meet Nancy Reagan," says Arturo Toscanini's daughter. "Normally, I don't like official bureaucratic functions. My father told me to avoid anything that involves government officials. But since we are going to Russia, I will make this exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Meeting with the Stunks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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