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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...multiplies their speed as if they're toddlers on sugar. These cars seem to double as aircraft. When goosed by an ace driver, the Skyline vaults across a yawning drawbridge, and the Yenko flies across the water to crash-land on the upper deck of the bad guy's yacht. 2F2F has a bit of plot about an ex-cop (Paul Walker) enlisting an old pal (Tyrese) to foil a drug lord. But it pays off as a thrill-delivery system, a convoy of road rage and carnage. It reminds you of what movies are: motion pictures. Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Vroooom | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...five generations." Still, being the majority shareholder as well as CEO allows for some freedoms that would be unthinkable at any nonfamily company. Bertarelli spent most of the past six months in New Zealand preparing for the America's Cup, which he won for landlocked Switzerland with his yacht Alinghi. Although he kept in touch by phone, e-mail and videoconference, managing a company from the other side of the world was evidently a challenge, and Bertarelli put in place a deputy CEO--who is not a relative--to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting On Heirs | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...investors, Dobbs rents out sumptuous villas at Weligama and Tangalla, both within a short drive of Galle, for several hundred dollars a night. Deep-sea fishing is available, as are snorkeling and scuba diving around the southern-coast coral reefs. And Dobbs plans to build the island's first yacht club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Home Address: Paradise | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...sense. Who would pay me a six-figure salary to let me work my way with relish through piles of fiction? Isn’t the purpose of my time at Harvard to obtain a profession that’ll let me retire at 50 and sunbathe on my yacht with a drink in one hand and a book in the other...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, | Title: Death of the Reader | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

...brotherly love. Sit back and listen as some of our country’s brave warriors recount their tales of valor, fighting for the freedom of the American people in foreign lands. Then, spin for them the moving tale of how you defended the pride of the Old Greenwich Yacht Club in foreign waters at last year’s inter-club regatta...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Places To Go, People to Spee | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

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