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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish student in Gulfport, Miss., who was told he could not wear a Star of David to class. School officials said the star was sometimes used by gangs, and they did not want any such imagery in classes. The case infuriated supporters of the Religious Liberty Protection Act. Once again, however, no federal intervention was required. The local school board decided after more careful consideration to reverse itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law on Bended Knee | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, and find ourselves in a tub of goo with robots ruling the world. "Rock says everything you want to say but that you're not quite sharp or smart enough to think of yourself," says MTV president Judy McGrath, who signed him up to act as host of this week's MTV Video Music Awards, to be held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. "Once you hear him, you say, 'Exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Rock and Joyner hit the road. Rock was interested in playing smaller stages, black clubs. He wanted to reconnect to audiences, to the street-level reality that had made his act funny to begin with. The result was Bring the Pain, his landmark HBO special. "He opened up his material, and it allowed a larger audience to be receptive to it," says Tim Meadows, a fellow SNL cast member. "Chris started talking about things onstage that he talked about in personal life--social and political issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Still, when a subject strikes a chord with him, Rock will go off on a comic jam session. Take white rap-rock. "It's kind of sad that when you watch MTV, you don't see a lot of cool white guys anymore that are cool without acting black," he says. "Like when I was a kid, Axl Rose was cool. David Lee Roth was cool. And they were cool and white. And acting white. Comfortable in their whiteness. Now everybody tries to act black. Kid Rock looks like he sleeps in RUN-D.M.C.'s closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

SIBLING RIVALRY Younger sister Jeanne Forms tennis' most famous sister played the women's tour act with Serena in the 1970s PARENT-COACH Coached by tennis-pro dad Coached by outspoken James dad Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game And Set, But No Match | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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