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...come to visit the Pope of Marxism-Leninism up a long and rickety elevator. It is in the process of being refurbished, but instead of being shut down, the elevator continues to run, half alive. The claw-hammer handle that the elevator operators once used has been replaced by gleaming new push buttons, but typically for China, the elevator operator has not been replaced. She still sits there, complete with a little one-foot-square desk and a bottle of green tea, carrying the nation's top Marxists up and down for eight hours a day. The pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...directed by God to save drug addicts and exotic dancers, that his friends were prophets and that he was the messiah. When the police were called in last week, he was menacing children in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn, and he attacked the cops with a claw hammer. The police shot him to death with 12 bullets. Should they have just maimed Busch to subdue him? New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, "When [police] make a decision to shoot, they shoot to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Police and the EDPs | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

What to Look For Everyone remembers Inspector Gadget from their childhood--the stories of the battle between the evil Claw and the clueless Inspector for the safety of the world all wrapped up into cheery half-hour segments. Matthew Broderick stars as the detective hunk and Rupert Everett takes up the role of Claw, who in the cartoon was never seen except for a cryptic hand massaging a big fat ugly cat. The plot is similar to the cartoon--in this one Gadget is blown up during a chase with Claw but is miraculously put back together by the seductive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...Brown-Dartmouth meet wasn't one where we felt we needed to scratch and claw our ways to a victory. We really want to keep everyone healthy and ready for the important meets like Yale and Heps," Ciollo added...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Teams Both Finish Second In Home Tri-meet | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...most up-to-date mimetic software. That crown was seized last month by the anonymous duo behind UltraHLE, the first emulator to turn your PC into a fully operational Nintendo 64. UltraHLE, or High Level Emulator, became a hot property at a time when Nintendo was starting to claw market share back from its larger rival, Sony. Now every college kid with a speedy T1 Internet connection could theoretically download all 26 megabytes of the holiday season's runaway hit, Legend of Zelda. UltraHLE, says Nintendo software manager Jim Merrick, is "like a virus--once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games Get Trashed | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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