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...meet our ride outside 14 Plympton at 11 p.m. on Sunday night. It's a BMW 5-series, all-leather interior, CD-carriage in the trunk. A pleasant surprise. Next we meet our driver. It's Daniel, a 5'3" Asian-American boy with wire-rim glasses and a mouth full of orthodontic gear. He's a friend of a friend. As we watch him empty his back seat of miscellaneous papers, books and WWF action figures, we wonder--the first of many such doubts--what the hell we are doing. "Daniel," Aaron asks, "How many car accidents have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...each day Leno drives to the cramped offices of the Feminist Majority Foundation in her blue BMW in which the red engine light keeps coming on (she says Jay coddles only his vintage cars). She recruited Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creator of Designing Women) to help grab attention for Afghan women. Together, they battled compassion fatigue to mount a $150- per-head buffet dinner with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Wrapped Up with Nowhere to Go | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Instead, Magna is something called a systems supplier. With more than 40,000 employees scattered across Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China and Brazil, it is one of a growing number of companies making ever larger and more complex parts of cars--like the metal-body exterior of BMW Z3 roadsters manufactured in the U.S., the instrument panel on the Jaguar XK8 and the passenger cell for the cute little Smart Car that German consumer Cerstin Stadeler was eyeing disapprovingly in Bonn. "It looks like one of those kid's toys that come in chocolate eggs," she says. "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Hawn, sitting in a blue BMW convertible, was almost obscured by suit-clad security guards and Pudding actors dressed in colorful drag costumes...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldie Meets Hasty: Hawn Takes Home Pudding Pot | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...chauvinist governments, like those of France and South Korea, will probably resist foreign takeovers. And niche manufacturers like BMW and Porsche, whose ownership is largely in family hands, may also remain independent. Almost everyone else is vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Motors | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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