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        “One day you no longer have your place in the couple. The couple is no longer the essential thing of your life. It no longer functions; it no longer works.” This may be the saddest?—most melancholy?—statement I’ve read all year. 
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        Gruber breaks down Apple’s quarterly results, but really, the nut is: the plan for global domination is ahead of schedule. Be afraid. 
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        Apple is now the largest hardware technology company in the world, measured by market cap. Yes, bigger than IBM. 
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        An appreciation of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. 
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        Some great old stories from the Times’ archive about a young teenaged baseball phenom named Manny Ramirez.