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The spy novel has a unique literary character. Its first purpose, like that of all fiction, is to entertain. Yet by having as its subject the spy, the man who goes where others do not, it implicitly assumes a secondary responsibility: to inform. A good spy novel allows the reader...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spy Novel That Doesn’t Thrill | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

Investors had good reason to be skeptical. Golf is a notoriously hermetic industry, dominated by a handful of top clubmakers with the advantage of years of tradition and a loyal customer base. Nike signed Tiger Woods before it had so much as a golf ball to put into his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Member of the Club | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Why is her trepidation less vile or more worthy of gentleness?

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale | Title: Nurse Ratched Lives at UHS | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

The goal is certainly worthy, but some of the practices of student-loan firms are anything but. For instance, how about manning a college's financial-aid hotline with employees of a lender that is vying for the callers' business? Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student loan company, used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Clean on Student Loans | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

Imagine you’re Mark Wahlberg: you’ve gone from being a hoodlum on the streets of Boston to an underwear model to a mediocre rapper to an Academy-Award-nominee. What would you do next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wahlberg Shoots To Be A ‘Guy’s Guy’ in Flick | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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