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Tell us whom you would choose as TIME magazine's Person of the Year and explain in 50 words why your choice is the person who "most affected our lives, for good or ill this year"--the POY definition of TIME founder Henry Luce. The winning entry will be published in this space in the year-end special issue, on newsstands...
While Christmas bells are ringing this season, if history holds true cash registers at multiplexes across the country will be humming along. All the major studios will be unveiling their year-end ornaments, all aspiring to be placed atop the lucrative box office tree. For the film industry knows that the best antidote to those awkward family moments (especially after the first semester of a young elf’s first year at Harvard) is an escape to the cinema, a place where folks can forget about shopping and little Jimmy’s bad grades and get lost with...
Assembly-line workers at Ford and Chrysler no longer chat about whether they'll spend their $5,000-to-$10,000 year-end profit-sharing windfalls on a family vacation or a motorboat. This year there's little profit to share. Many also stand to lose $10,000 to $20,000 in reduced annual overtime pay. And their white-collar bosses aren't doing much better. Ford's 6,000 executives won't be getting any bonuses. The people who sell the cars and make most of their money from commissions are suffering much the same fate. Joe Torchia peddles...
...work of a prankster with a bowel fixation. But on the World Wide Web, the portals are open to everyone with an opinion, even if he is not who he seems. In 2001, everyone?s a critic, with his own cute handle (such as Chuck Schwartz, Cranky Critic?) or year-end 10 Best list (Harry Knowles of the popular ain't-it-cool-news.com picked the defiantly weird Requiem for a Dream as his No. 1). The web is where traditional criticism is democratized, where the ?lite meet defeat at the hands of the cyber-rabble. You don?t need experience, insight...
...that it was an open secret. The mystery is that so many are shocked--shocked!--to learn that bankers take kickbacks for allocating shares of a hot IPO, or that analysts tout stocks not for their potential but because cheery opinions help reel in underwriting fees and a monster year-end bonus...