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...declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered rap only when white teens started listening to it: "Hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston." It's Eminem's most political song, even if it is rooted in his bottomless sense of personal grievance, which seems to grow in direct proportion to his bank account. On Square Dance, he anticipated that Iraq would be next on America's target list long before it dominated the headlines: "When I say Hussein, you say Shady," he taunts, alluding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Fat Year in Culture | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Enter Provigil. It’s a small, white and slightly oblong pill that has fewer side effects than caffeine, is safe even in large doses, and has not yet been shown to be any more addictive than your bottomless cup of coffee from Toscanini’s. Army helicopter pilots who have taken the drug were able to stay up for 40 hours, sleep for eight hours, and then stay up for another 40 hours without losing the ability to perform complex tasks. Although the military often experiments with ways to keep soldiers awake, the rest of us need...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: One Pill, Two Days, No Sleep | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world of commercial airlines, the carrier was too small, its costs too high. Sabena needed a partner to survive. The fateful deal with Swissair was signed in May 1995, after Sabena's attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of Sabena | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

Mitt Romney’s handsome appearance, Olympic fame and seemingly bottomless warchest—fueled by strong fundraising and the candidate’s considerable personal fortune—will present significant hurdles to O’Brien come November...

Author: By David S. Hirsch and Christopher M. Loomis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Face-Off Settled: Romney vs. O’Brien | 9/18/2002 | See Source »

...signing off on a $30 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue loan for Brazil, which began to restore stability. O'Neill gave tiny Uruguay $1.5 billion from the U.S. Treasury to stop a run on that country's banks. Now even profligate, bankrupt Argentina, which has sunk into bottomless recession through corruption and misguided policies, hopes to get in on the aid, though O'Neill has promised it nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Lost Continent | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

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