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...Line Having been hurt too many times before, the K.C. Line jumped off the Chief's bandwagon last week. The K.C. Line regrets this. He has since replanted his ass firmly back on said wagon, and it's staying right there until Elvis Grbac comes back down to Earth. Which may be soon, but won't be this week, as the Chiefs make the Seahawks look bad in Arrowhead on Monday night...
Celebrities and sports stars, from Martha Stewart to Joe Montana, are jumping on the VC bandwagon. In the past several months, corporate heavyweights IBM, News Corp., Time Warner (parent of TIME) and Arthur Andersen, to name a few, have launched their own funds. Even the CIA has set up a venture arm, In-Q-Tel. And later this year, Silicon Valley start-up MeVC, along with VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will roll out a publicly traded venture fund that lets individuals with a net worth of at least $150,000 plunk down a minimum of $5,000 to play...
...Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) condemns the cynically minded attempt by Gordon Brown and the Government to jump on a populist bandwagon and level claims of elitism at Oxford University," according to a recent press release...
Ripe-voiced Graham is well on her way to becoming the Renee Fleming of mezzo-sopranos. Her starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...
...areas in which science makes little or no progress. The human mind, in particular, remains as mysterious as ever. Some prominent mind scientists, including [TIME Visions contributor] Steven Pinker, have reluctantly conceded that consciousness might be scientifically intractable. Paul, you should jump on the end-of-science bandwagon before it gets too crowded...