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...comfort to realize that even in the Internet age, rock 'n' roll still knows how to keep a secret. To most of the media (The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and The New Yorker, for example), Detroit's neo-garage rock duo, The White Stripes, are siblings. After all, singer/guitarist Jack White, 25, and drummer Meg White, 26, have the same jet black hair and pale complexion, often perform in matching red and white outfits, and introduce themselves as brother and sister. But to Detroit, and to knowledgeable fans across the nation, the White Stripes are, first, a band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White Lies and The White Stripes | 6/16/2001 | See Source »

...edgy, full of the possibility of big changes, yet still uncertain. The polls consistently predicted an easy Labour victory, but there were still those who doubted. Although the Conservatives were trailing Labour by up to 20 points, just as they have been during this campaign, the Tories themselves took comfort from the 1992 election results, when they outfoxed the polls that gave Labour a 1% lead and won by a small margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Antics | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...began: "Don't let the moments of your life fade away." There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment; the concealed show in Terre Haute was unusual, but not exactly the work of Vlad the Impaler. Is there something preposterous about executing a mass murderer in such comfort? What if he'd been wheeled in a tumbrel through the streets of Oklahoma City, to be execrated and spat upon on the way to a guillotine on the spot where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing McVeigh Gave Him Power | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...comfort level has been nearly impossible for Harvard to achieve on many recent projects, with residents opposing everything from the surface to the purpose of buildings...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A River Runs Through It | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...just represented an extraordinary person who had the potential to be an amazing president of Harvard. He had really a very deep passion for knowledge, a comfort with complexity, and all of the essential values of the academy,” a committee member said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Presidential Search | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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