Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Case would charge through first. Levin would politely hold the door, not only for the person after him, but for everyone else in the party. It wasn't a gesture of submission. No one would have seen him and said, "Oh, man, Jerry was holding the door for people!" Instead it was the kind of thing Levin seemed to feel would be expected of a Time Warner executive. In Case's world, the polite thing to do is get through the door and out of the way. In Levin's, it's to hold it for others...
Calling his bluff, eUniverse declined to pay and instead contacted the FBI. Maxus, it turned out, wasn't kidding: on Christmas Day, the so-called Maxus Credit Cards Datapipe went into service, offering Web surfers thousands of free, pilfered card numbers at the click of a mouse. It was only last week that a Web-security company alerted eUniverse to the existence of the site, which was quickly shut down. By then, though, 25,000 credit-card numbers had been given away. "Of the card numbers the FBI pulled off the site," says eUniverse vice president Brett Brewer, "a majority...
...their hands in the middle of it all are the INS and its overseer, Attorney General Janet Reno, who stated emotionally last week that Elian "should be with his father" and upheld the INS ruling. But she went limp on the critical issue of how to carry it out. Instead, she asked Elian's kin to "work together" to resolve that question. She sounded at once prudent and naive. This family feud "has become a canona," warns University of Miami sociologist Max Castro, using a Cuban term for bullying. "It's not some gentlemen's disagreement...
...that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...
...time when being controversial for most young actresses means wearing Galliano instead of Prada, Jolie is a shot of adrenaline, and Hollywood is growing addicted. She has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her Girl, Interrupted performance, has just finished shooting a film with Nicolas Cage and is scheduled to begin another with Antonio Banderas next month...