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...having been spirited off by a suitor who outbid a rival in a heated moment, but by the more prosaic route of having been cancelled. It's a welcome respite for the endearing sci-fi romance and its winning cast, but it does tend to undermine UPN's argument, which is that this is the type of UPN show that inspires devotion in viewers. Just not enough to keep it on the air at another network the same size. (It is a theme of the upfronts, by the way, that statistics can make every network into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: Reruns From UPN and Fox | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

...Voice The book makes an argument familiar to all proselytizing critics. Crosby, Giddins says, isn't like all those people you don't like (like Al Jolson); he's like those people you like (Armstrong, Sinatra, Elvis). And, oddly, the argument is just about convincing. Crosby did indeed learn from Louis - a debt he would gleefully repay with dozens of recorded duets, frequent invitations to Armstrong to appear on "Kraft Music Hall" and the securing of star billing for Armstrong in Crosby's 1936 film "Pennies from Heaven" (at the time a rare plum for a black performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...there other factors? Defense attorneys might offer a different argument: Since the bulk of the drop-off in juvenile crime predates most states? embrace of harsher penalties for young offenders, it is disingenuous to assume any connection between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Law Treat Kids and Adults Differently? | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...Assuming that line of argument reaches a judge, perhaps in the form of a request for a new trial, the defense team would wait, just like the rest of us, for a ruling. In the long run, only a judge, not lawyers, can determine if the new evidence is actually important enough to merit consideration. The judge could reject the complaint outright, or he could accept it and order a brand new, drawn-out trial. In other words, he could order exactly the outcome the government is scrambling so desperately to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the End, It'll Be McVeigh's Call Whether to Fight On | 5/15/2001 | See Source »

...Newark airports, which sprawl for miles and miles and require their own mass transit systems to navigate. Things seem to be looking up. My feeble credit card thankfully is not declined and I am actually able to get my car without an incredible battle, a confusing and enraging argument, or some unexpected monstrous charge. They just run my card and give me the keys and directions how to get to West Yellowstone. Unbelievable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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