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JANUARY 2000 Annoyed by paparazzi trying to photograph her while she eats a hot dog on a New York City sidewalk, Monica goes "ballistic," according to witnesses, and embeds the heel of her Manolo Blahnik shoe in the forehead of a photographer. Monica is charged with assault with an expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rest Of Monica Lewinsky | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Twelve days before the polls opened, Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project announced that 3.9 million adults, including 1.4 million African-Americans, would be legally denied the right to vote Nov. 3. Their report, entitled "Losing the Vote," identified the last group of mentally competent adults to be denied...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: For Felons, an Unjust Political Death | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Over the last two decades, the heavy praise lavished on John Carpenter by his cult following has given the director a bit of a reputation as a Hollywood "visionary." In truth, he is little more than a competent filmmaker, capable of producing solid genre pieces. But Carpenter is dead-on...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

On the heels of a smash success, any new album is like a second date. Everyone has had time to mull things over and to build up unreasonable expectations. Things went so well the last time, but that only makes the pressure even greater. You have to live up to...

Author: By Jared S. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beck's Post-Success Stress | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

We experience with the oarsmen the jolt of adrenaline that accompanies "rowing through" a weaker, less competent boat. We approach inner peace as the rowers transcend individuality to form, in the memorable words of a former Harvard crew legend, "a nautical engine vastly more powerful than the sum of its...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Learning Life's Lessons on the Charles | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

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