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...thought about this a bit more yesterday morning while watching the men's giant slalom. As a bit of background: Last week, in the men's combined, the dashing alpinist from Franconia, N.H., Bode Miller, had bounced off his butt in the downhill portion and then messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Pulled a Bode | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...young beauties. Nafiza was one of them. Green-eyed, with raven-black hair that grazed her waist, Nafiza had rushed to help Shah Jan get her three kids out of the burning house. A Taliban fighter spotted the woman with the emerald eyes. She was his prize. With the butt of his AK-47 rifle, he slammed Nafiza into the dust and dragged her, crying and pleading, to the highway. There, Arabs and Pakistanis of al-Qaeda joined the Taliban to sort out the young women from the other villagers. One girl preferred suicide to slavery; she threw herself down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifting The Veil On Sex Slavery | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...want to hold that love in position.” Nipple clips available for $20 restrict blood flow to the chest and offer instruction in pain management. If whips, ropes and furry handcuffs don’t jive with the desired ambience, perhaps the “Pony Play Butt Plug” will. One of Phelps’ favorite items, it supposedly creates an animalistic, primitive feeling through the foot-long, pseudo-horse mane that dangles from its tip. “People underestimate the butt’s sensuality,” she says. “It?...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night, Out of Love | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Carpenter came to the starting line together as the final twosome to race. Shimizu was in first place with a combined time of 69.26. FitzRandolph needed a 34.83 to win. He would skate a 34.81."I didn't get off line well," he explained later. "Kip was kicking my butt after 20 meters. It told me I needed to drop the hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey FitzRandolph Wins Speedskating Gold | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...lived in California, you'd know that Connell can be a pain in the butt - especially to the rears of spendthrift public servants wasting taxpayer money. As the fiscal watchdog for the state, she uncovered more than $1 billion worth of Medi-Cal fraud in 1999 and more recently, refused to pick up $2,600 in expenses for takeout sushi and pizza ordered by state employees working late during the energy crisis. At the time CalPERS was considering JEDI II, Connell was the only one on the board with an investment banking background. An investment banker for a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Prescient Brush With Enron | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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