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...least, the organizers had the intelligence to select Crimson Sports' own Dave De Remer to take a crack at the hole in the goal...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Monday Madness | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...considered signing up with a private teacher for another crack at lessons, but I know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instant Piano for the Busy and Lazy | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the Napster saga goes on and on. It isn't the first time the recording industry wanted to crack down on technology: as the excellent book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (written by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton) notes in its chapter on the history of the radio DJ, record companies in the '40s were initally skeptical about the power of radio as a promotional tool, and were afraid it would take away sales. Similarly, when FM stereo was introduced, they were likewise afraid the quality of home taping would make LPs redundant. And yet these obviously...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: In the Mix | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...Well, I'm going to crack a last VB and finish packing. I did get the stuffed wombat for Caroline, kangaroos for the twins, and your Coogi sweater. And as I say, I did buy myself that bushman's hat. You'll really like it. Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Both candidates are trying to crack their late-night caricatures by matching wits with the creators of those caricatures. When Gore showed up on Letterman recently, he scored with his prepared material ("I gave you the Internet; I can take it away"), a gag the Modern Humorist, a website, claims Gore lifted. But the payoff for Gore came when David Letterman joked that the show was actually a fund raiser and that Gore would be out in the audience "to collect your thousand dollars." The Buddhist temple just hasn't had the same sting since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Oprah Primary | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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