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...also featured a crotch-grabbing rap star and a dance routine that would have got its participants arrested not long ago. Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uses of Civility | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...month suspended prison term - suggests that courts plan to get tough on corruption. Some voters interpreted Juppé's heavy punishment as long overdue retribution. "Juppé seems to be paying for the others who got off," says Nathalie Artaud, 29, an Internet project manager for a Paris ad agency. "Still, courts have to begin enforcing the law with politicians one day, and if it has to start with Juppé, so be it." Paris graduate student Thomas Brun agrees: "The sentence is tough, but not necessarily unfair. The court apparently wanted to set a precedent. Perhaps this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock To The System | 2/8/2004 | See Source »

...person. Unlike some other offshore centers that require at least two people to form a corporation, only one is needed here. And for a fee, anonymity is assured. "We have a large database of shelf corporations available so that you can establish a history for your company," touts an ad for one service firm on the territory. Is it the Cayman Islands? Monaco? The Bahamas? No, it's the U.S. state of Delaware, and the services offered there are entirely legal. No wonder success is so elusive in the growing international effort to crack down on tax fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm Over Tax Havens | 2/8/2004 | See Source »

...follow through on his campaign planks offering to improve life at the College—from fighting for a real student center to implementing a keg return service. But this year, the council will have more to worry about than just extended party hours and student representation on the Ad Board. Now that the cogs of the curricular review are turning, Mahan should make it his top priority to lead the council in engaging the administrators, faculty and students on the curricular review committees. As a body ostensibly representing Harvard undergraduates, the council must stick up for the students...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Prioritize the Curriculum | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...George gets a laugh when he replies, earnestly, "I had one yesterday." In a crowded elevator, Paul lightens the mood by announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, on your right you'll see the Washington Memorial." Running down a hotel corridor, George mimics the mob outside--"Ban the bomb!"--and John ad-libs, "Ban the Pope." Trapped in their suite, Ringo plaintively asks, "Are we going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Beatles, Year One | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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