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Indeed, fur has once again become a mainstay on the catwalks. Wearing faux-fur is now considered a faux-pas. Whatever happened to the time when standing up for moral values was in vogue? Supermodels Christy Turlington, Tyra Banks and actor Kim Basinger all posed in the buff for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" campaign. In the disappointing aftermath of the Rio Earth Summit, the day in the sun that cute furry creatures enjoyed has been eclipsed by the corporate powers that...

Author: By Dalia L. Rotstein, | Title: An Unfashionable Trend | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...manifesto explaining "The Former Website Incident," Knobler writes, "The e-mail harshly (and, although my perspective is biased, I would say baselessly) insulted both my website and myself." Crushed by the attack, Knobler scheduled a face-to-face showdown with his buff tormentor. Meanwhile, a slew of e-mails from other irked athletes relentlessly inundated his in-box until he shut down knobler.com for the first time in two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The School of Hard Knobs | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 (everyone's favorite buff conservative) is once again offering up his graduate seminar on the gender with the Y chromosome...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Search of the Perfect Elective | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...each week a massive audience witnessed, live, a parade of people trying to use their heads to strike it rich. Question quickly spawned a number of instant folk heros and heroines: the New York City cop who had brushed up his Shakespeare ($16,000); the shoemaker opera buff ($32,000); the young psychologist named Joyce Brothers whose specialty was prizefighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Those Old Good Games | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...Glocks-up review amuses Chase, a Mob-movie buff from childhood, but it doesn't shock him. "I knew that contemporary wiseguys were very much influenced by the Godfather films and watched them continuously," he notes. "That becomes kind of a strange loop." Thus, in the show, Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) cracks up his Mob buddies with an Al Pacino impersonation from the maligned Godfather III ("Just when I thought I was out--they pull me back in!"), while family chief Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) expresses a preference for The Godfather II over the original. What characters, indeed. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: They Pull You Back In | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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