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...next morning, I saw the prime minister on TV. Howard's an arch-conservative and a monarchist, and you just know that it got right up his nose when Cathy was chosen to light the cauldron at Opening Ceremonies. But now he was saying, "Cathy Freeman is an Aborigine and an Australian and she's proud of that, and we're proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Take Jim Diskin, 43, a telecommunications consultant who drove out from Pittsburgh one night to sneak a peek. He aimed his Ford Escort under an arch of flashing red lights and into the "Nude Drive-Thru Lane," stopping at a booth where a sign says the show is $5 a minute. Diskin handed over a twenty and was waved ahead to a 6-ft. window under a carport. "I love America," he said, and that was before a curtain opened and a 21-year-old flower named Daisy stood behind the glass in a blue-sequined miniskirt. One minute into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Pickles, Please | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...care? No. I didn't care back then, and I don't care now. Go ahead, arch those eyebrows. Make fun of me with your post-modern metaphysical over-analytical gibberish. Tell me exactly how many steps backwards I am setting the feminist movement with my Beatles-esque boy-band adoration. It's high time that someone took a stand. So, with my knock-out yellow halter top, glittery eye shadow and precious teddy bear, I will proudly stand up. I will be your teenybopper...

Author: By Alejandra Casillas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: N-SANE IN THE MEMBRANE: screaming and dreaming with the babes in boyland | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...trade with the U.S., China remains an authoritarian state ruled by an all-powerful Communist party. And there's a furious struggle at the very top of that party over China's economic and political direction - a struggle in which hard-liners obsessed with maintaining order are currently dominant. Arch- reformer prime minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed out of concluding a permanent trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad News on Trade With China | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...insurance lobby over exorbitant storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state's fraying Democratic base. Nelson, with his TV-anchorman looks, is also aided by the impeachment-trial image of the owlish McCollum lecturing like a high school teacher about lust. "I'm a moderate Democrat vs. an arch-conservative Republican," says Nelson. "Pure and simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunshine Bellwether | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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