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...most surprising thing about the future is this: Twenty years after Harvard, the state of your brain matters a lot more than the state of your resume. Some workaholic students emerged in the spring of my senior year looking like Charlton Heston after he comes down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments--burned out and still smoking, clutching a Hoopes Prize instead of stone tablets. Still today (the future), these people have the dynamism and social warmth of a strep throat culture...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: A Vision of the Future | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...National Rifle Association did something odd last week, even by its standards. Responding to the Million Mom March in Washington for gun control, the N.R.A. presented television and newspaper ads in which its president, Charlton Heston, and an "N.R.A. mom" announced a new challenge program. "We're putting up the first $1 million to put gun-safety education in every classroom," said Heston. The N.R.A. mom added, "That's a million N.R.A. moms challenging a million more moms just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redemption: It's Good for Business | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...report in the Washington Post, has been boasting about its "unbelievably friendly relations" with the Texas governor. In a video obtained by the Post of a Los Angeles branch meeting in February, NRA vice president Kayne Robinson, who is widely expected to take over the top job from Charlton Heston, tells the audience that "the NRA will have... a President where we work out of their office" if Bush wins in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the NRA Is Making George W. Bush Blush | 5/4/2000 | See Source »

...Charlton Heston cornered the market on Moses long ago in The Ten Commandments, but as another Easter approaches, we're still without a definitive Hollywood Jesus. More than 100 actors have taken a shot at the role--so many, in fact, that you can connect some of the more recent ones Kevin Bacon-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Degrees of Jesus | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...separate interview by accusing the President of having "blood on his hands" for the death of a former Northwestern University basketball coach whose murderer slipped through existing gun-control laws. In the background of this bitter debate played a barrage of television ads in which N.R.A president Charlton Heston, in his full Moses voice, called the President a liar for distorting the N.R.A's position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pause in the Shootout | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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