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...Supreme Court dashed those hopes; their decision not to hear Tarver's case sends the condemned man right back to the front of the electrocution line. But, says TIME legal writer Adam Cohen, that may not necessarily be an indication of the Court's attitude toward the death penalty. "It's always hard to read rejections like this," says Cohen. "We can never know the reasons they choose not to hear a case." On the other hand, he notes, "the most liberal Justices - Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer - voted to hear the case, and that may be an indication that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electric Chair Lives to See Another Day | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...only place you can spend them. beenz are the product of a company called Beenz.com that hopes to make them the currency of the Internet, and they may be the future of cash as we know it. In five years, says Beenz.com founder Charles Cohen, "I believe we'll start to see beenz listed against other major currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beenz Counters | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Cohen founded Beenz.com because he was fed up with existing customer-incentive programs. "I had reward cards and loyalty-card and bank schemes, miles for this, miles for that, thousands and thousands of points, but I had no idea what they were worth. They sent me catalogs, and I didn't want anything in them. It was annoying." He saw an opportunity to give consumers more of a choice in how companies rewarded them for purchases, and to grease the wheels of the burgeoning Internet economy, all in one swoop. Beenz.com launched in March 1999, and by August 150 companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beenz Counters | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...help boost enlistments, Defense Secretary Bill Cohen is asking celebrities to do military-recruiting ads. The Navy is airing Spike Lee-directed commercials, and James Brolin is narrating a video for the Marine Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here & There | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...This is a part of a trend to replace traditional race-based affirmative action with forms of inclusion that are not expressly based on race," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Like similar legislation enacted in California, Texas and Washington State, Florida's new guidelines mean minorities would be considered in the same way as any other applicants, although new measures will be taken to increase minorities' involvement in recruiting programs. But Bush's plan, while ostensibly democratic, raises the ire of some black and minority leaders, in part because it's unclear how the 'diversity outreach' and '20 percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Nail in the Coffin of Affirmative Action? | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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