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...hikers made their way through the snow with an ice ax, taking turns clearing the path for four hours...

Author: By John J. Obrien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Rescued After Night on N.H. Mountain | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...life. The titular sock-monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Millionaire's Sock Monkey Offers Strange Comfort | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...still had some sorcery left in the person of Daniela Mercury; imagine a performer with the sexiness of Shakira and the pop appeal of Faith Hill. Mercury, since the beginning of her career, has championed the music and culture of Bahia, her native region in Brazil. Her music is axé music (a word derived from the Yoruba word for life force or positive energy). Within her sound is relentless percussion, samba, reggae and a pinch of merengue. Like Madonna, she's a bit of a sexual provocateur. On her album "Feijao Comarroz," Mercury, who is light-skinned, appears hugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...views. "For the life of me, that doesn't make any sense," says an adviser to the Bush campaign. "She is hated by the constituency they were trying to court with her selection." Chavez, a native New Mexican who does not speak a word of Spanish, is the lead ax wielder against bilingual education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confirmation Bear Traps | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...position, Lindsey will have to strike a balance between offering personal advice to the president and synthesizing the views of other agencies. The individual best suited for the job is one who "doesn't have his own ax to grind" Porter says. "[You] must remember who the voters elected, and that you serve...

Author: By S. CHARTEY Quarcoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Sanders Theatre to the West Wing | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

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