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...Performance-wise, don't expect everything: the MP-X7230 doesn't have the highest technical specifications. Then again, it isn't meant to. This is a device that will allow you to send e-mails, surf the Net, work on a few documents and do some undemanding graphic chores while you're between hotel rooms?which for many business travelers meets the brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small is Beautiful | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Career-wise, Rubins’ long-term plans are to run for political office. She admires John F. Kennedy and says that Bill Clinton was a “cunning politician” whom she would like to emulate...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lieberman in 2004, Rubins in 2020? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...Shortly after Howard Dean and the voters have confounded all the "experts" for the millionth time by soundly defeating the current corporate puppet administration, you will collectively reflect with stunned embarrassment at your futile attempts to impose "conventional wisdom" on a wise electorate and Dean's brilliant, transformative, grassroots campaign, and realize belatedly that it was all quite predictable. Free advice from the real world: Job status and pay is determined by performance evaluations, something TIME might consider implementing soon. Lance Nottle Mountain View, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What will be the biggest story of this election year? | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...good many others at this time of year--the familiar details seem etched on the heart. Yet they have been questioned by liberal scholars for years. Though often believers themselves, these scriptural experts have challenged nearly everything in the Nativity story: the angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 29 Years Ago In TIME | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas Gomez) and the wise-cracking sadist (Regis Toomey). Gomez: ?Your wife was strangled with one of your ties.? Toomey: ?Yeah. Knotted so tight it had to be cut loose with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

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