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...suspense on Sunday night had an almost sadomasochistic tingle: Would Dr. Melfi ask Tony Soprano to whack the creep who raped her? Alas, duty precedes pleasure, so we had to sit through the Academy Award ceremony - it's mandatory, even for "Sopranos" fans - before watching the episode that aired last evening. (And having seen it, right after shooing our Oscar Night guests home, I can confidently predict that Burt Young will nab an Emmy for Best Phlegm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...when the banks were on the verge of collapse, the government authorized spending 70 trillion yen (nearly $600 billion) to shore them up. Trouble is, the government hasn't forced banks to reconcile bad debts, which now total at least $246 billion. Meanwhile, corporations are beginning to whack away at the cross-shareholdings, the financial bindings of the old business networks. These reforms are necessary. But they are also a big part of why the stock market is reeling, as corporations and banks alike sell off their investments. That process is expected to accelerate this week and next because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Case Scenario | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

First, there are blatant physical advantages: I have an automatic mechanical advantage in all sports, with the exception of gymnastics and horse jockeying, where I am tremendously disadvantaged. Lankiness and athletics are a great combination; whether stealing balls or whacking others, I usually win. (I can whack someone from three feet away, but they can't whack...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Being Tall | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

...candidate, he promised big tax cuts and won a close election. As a chief executive, he made delivering on that pledge his first item of business. Lawmakers lined up to vote for his tax bills--but over time, those cuts reduced government revenues and threw the budget out of whack, undercutting essential programs like Medicaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Beltway: When Tax Cuts Hit Texas | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Five are of course sympathetic - it's their investment too. But legal whack-a-mole is not a business model, and the laws of physics would seem to prevent the encryption of sound. Which means the future of music may end up looking a lot like an infinitely large FM radio - free, demand-based and advertiser-supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of the Line for Royalties? | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

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