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...annoying the Vatican, which recently elevated an exiled Vietnamese bishop to cardinal. There are dissident priests in Vietnam, like Father Ly, but more troublesome are followers of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, which won't allow state advisers. "The Communist Party considers churches to be another arm of the state," Abuza says. "Any deviance is dealt with harshly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sins of the Father | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...last, America's most notorious hip-hopper and many of the parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Feeling No Pain? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Presidential Experience Any child of five could do Nixon. He was the most visual of the Presidents...He had definite arm movements, a definite way of walking, he was very uncoordinated, very flat-footed, walked like he never took the hanger out of the coat...Nixon, like Clinton, wrote itself from the headlines: the more trouble they got themselves into--the more controversy--the more comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Impersonating The President...A Ha-Ha Away From Power | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...meet David B. Adelman '04. He lives in Canaday, and as the blocking deadline passes, David would give his right arm to be placed in the Quad. Yes, the Quad...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, | Title: Why Not Let Students Choose? | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

What a treat! A man with a sense of humor and a sense of awe, Josephson contrived some of the most beckoning brainteasers of postmodernism, especially in the 1960s and '70s. When an anonymous arm holds up a Polaroid of clouds against a cloudless sky, all certainties about certainty are gently undone. And when a parked car is twinned in the radiance of a wet street, you realize that if the world is a funny place, it's because the eye and the mind are jokers of the highest order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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