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...most impressive outfit of the night was the smallest. The team from Mongolia was led into the arena by their flag carrier, heavyweight judoka B. Bat-Erdene, who simply wore a generous G-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Style Olympics | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...highest they have been in 32 years, with violent crime among juveniles accounting for more than half of all those offenses. In the first six months of 2000, violent crime among juveniles increased 15% over 1999. A high school athlete, 17, attacked his teammates with a baseball bat in June, then biked home and fatally bludgeoned his mother. The month before, a teen broke into a house and knifed a woman to death because, he told police, "I wanted to experience killing." The same month, a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus, forced the driver into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural-Born Killers? | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

Actors who play comic-book superheroes are generally well-built stiffs like Val Kilmer. (That was no bat mask, just his only facial expression.) But TOBEY MAGUIRE, 25, the cerebral and slightly doughy star of The Cider House Rules, bucked the trend last week by landing the part of Spiderman in the upcoming Sam Raimi-directed movie, beating out the Kilmeresque Freddie Prinze Jr. Though he hasn't started working out yet ("Hey, I just got this thing last Friday"), Maguire aced a crime-fighting screen test in bulge-revealing spandex, and he's already endured a fitting for Spiderman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

BUSH: Without revealing all the great secrets? I got a few of my old club mates who could demystify it right off the bat. My dad didn't tap me. Someone a year ahead of me tapped me. There was an entry celebration. I can't remember whether my dad showed up or not. I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: George Bush: My Heritage Is Part of Who I Am | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...article had the city going to bat when the city had been asleep," Meyers says...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Critics Alarmed by Nieman Head's Record at Gannett Papers | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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