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Teutonic temptress Claudia Schiffer has trumped liberation icon Nelson Mandela in the rock-paper-scissors game that decides the hosts of soccer's World Cup. Germany, whose bid to host the 2006 event was fronted by the supermodel alongside tennis ace Boris Becker and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, on Thursday knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Claudia Whups Nelson in Soccer's Celeb Showdown! | 7/6/2000 | See Source »

The 2002 World Cup will be jointly hosted by Korea and Japan, marking the tournament's first foray outside of either Europe or the Americas. But although South Africa is by far the most viable potential host in Africa, it failed to persuade enough FIFA delegates that it would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Claudia Whups Nelson in Soccer's Celeb Showdown! | 7/6/2000 | See Source »

The real convergence in this deal would be the alliance of Universal's vast film and recorded music holdings with Vivendi's sprawling Internet, pay-TV and software-publishing properties. Classics from Universal's library of 24,000 TV episodes and more than 3,000 films, including such blockbusters as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J'Adore Content | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Thus far, though, TV's voyeurism has not met the organized moral outcry that European groups--religious, political, psychological--have directed toward the Continent's reality freak shows. (Although People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has protested against CBS because the Survivor contestants monstrously killed animals in order to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Like To Watch | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

SAN FRANCISCO--As Widener Library slumbers in the dimness of a year-long renovation, the new San Francisco Public Library shines in the California sun a continent away. For a budding scholar accustomed to Widener's overbrimming stacks, tiny windows and rustic chain-link and gun-metal decor, the glossy...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A White Elephant By the Bay | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

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