Word: endingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Rowling has a very good reason for trying to keep the world at bay. She is after all a working writer, committed to producing three more novels that will bring to an end the seven years Harry and his classmates spend at Hogwarts. And ominous news on this front emerged late in the year: Rowling's agent, Christopher Little, announced that there would be no new Harry Potter novel before 2002. (Imagine here a worldwide gnashing of teeth--baby, permanent and false.) But there will be two brief new, pseudonymous Rowling books coming this winter, based on titles...
...omnipresent baseball cap--holed up for days without sleep in his uncle's office, tapping out code for a music-swapping program. He didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived a legal threat and found a sponsor in Bertelsmann, the media behemoth. Even if it wasn't supposed to happen this way, music may finally have changed the world...
...end, Pitofsky could claim victory in that the FTC had established a template for regulation in the Internet age and had avoided the risk of losing control over the deal had he decided to sue to block the merger and lost. The new company was forced to relinquish its advantage in high-speed Internet service by agreeing to a deal that gives equal access to EarthLink, its largest competitor...
...athletes have always been paid too much. This view was given new currency when the Seattle Mariners' free-agent shortstop, Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez, last week signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for (no typo) $252 million. Is A-Rod's windfall really news? Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio was criticized...
...end, the TV sensation Survivor was all about downsizing. Sixteen people voted one another off a desert island until the last one claimed $1 million. So how could anyone but the corporate trainer have won it? Richard Hatch used group-management skills to build protective alliances, describing his plan to viewers with the glee of a dinner-theater Iago. He was confidence embodied. At 250 lbs. before island life slimmed him down--SurvivorSucks.com dubbed him "Machiabelly"--he had no problem strutting around camp in the buff. Hatch attributed his pluck partly to being openly gay in a straight...