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...soaps or weekend football games offer a refuge from politics anymore. "I'm sick about all the commercials," complains Sandra Bierwagen, 64. That may be why the Republican Party in Michigan considered getting some votes for local candidates by offering viewers a little relief - a spot featuring a babbling brook and a soothing voice-over: "This 30-second interlude of peace was brought to you by the Republican Justices for the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candidates' Secret Ground War for Votes | 10/14/2000 | See Source »

...decisions of London's producers and directors. For a nation that could celebrate the new millennium with anything as audacious as the theme park-cum-history museum that is the Millennium Dome, you might think they could at least produce an dramatic innovator on the order of Peter Brook for the turn of the century. But rather than face the years ahead straight-on, the powers that be on the West End have chosen to turn their gaze every way but forward...

Author: By Crimson ARTS Editors, | Title: Summer Theater Wrap-Up | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

Ellison, who could not be reached for comment, is currently working on the book at her home in Stony Brook...

Author: By Winnie Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ellison to Publish Memoir | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...Brown's only action thus far this season, it tallied 428 yards through the air on its way to a 50-0 win in a preseason scrimmage against Stony Brook...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fresh Blood | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

That means sitting down at 10 a.m. to pitch meetings like this one with his VC partners and competitors--Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins, Steven Merrill of Benchmark Capital and CEOs Matt Glickman of BabyCenter.com and Dave Whorton of Springthings.com--to listen to the latest ideas from the world of philanthropy and interrogate the presenters, picking apart their Powerpoint presentations as aggressively as they would a B2B start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venture Philanthropists: The New Schools Fund | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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