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(2 of 2) If the revolt was slow in coming, that may be because most Americans hate to hate the rich. They'd rather envy them and hope to get there themselves. The '90s offered a whole new breed of heroes, not starchy heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Mistrust | 7/14/2002 | See Source »

How, exactly, did WorldCom cook its books? By treating routine expenses as capital investments. Normal operating expenses must be subtracted from a company's revenues in the year they occur. But capital expenditures can be subtracted from revenues a little at a time over many years. In the short term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WorldCon | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

However bad it gets, there are some traditions from the old days that Kitty Teixeire refuses to let die. She greets visitors barefoot in a bedraggled sari at the doorless entrance to her collapsing bungalow. But when she serves coffee, she covers her splintered table with a white cloth and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from India: No Place Like Home | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Yet this exurban behemoth (larger than the city of Denver itself, it covers 53 sq. mi.), with its tentlike spires and cavernous, convention-hall interior, has its user-unfriendly quirks. Passengers who are dropped off at the airport by cab or rental-car van find themselves, for some odd reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation's Best Run Airport — and Why It's Still Not Good Enough | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

Because crime scence security was non-existent - a policeman sat in the driver's seat and used the bloody steering wheel to drive the limping vehicle away - few answers are likely to be found in the destroyed interior. More, however, may be gleaned elsewhere. One question is what happened to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killing in Kabul | 7/6/2002 | See Source »

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