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...first I thought it would just go away--like Tickle Me Elmo and other such kiddy fads. But oh no, this one has gotten out of control. What the hell is Pokmon? Why is it infiltrating school cafeterias, slumber parties, Saturday morning television and (very soon) movie theatres? Our crack team will dive inside the insidious world of the Japanimation dinos (or whatever they are) and surface with a report in the near future...
...retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still active. Mitrokhin wanted to publish his files to reveal to the world the paranoia, cynicism and abuse endemic in Soviet power--the ultimate dissent from a system that...
...what was one to think? Two days earlier, Reno had ordered U.S. marshals into FBI headquarters in the Hoover building to "take custody of"--not "seize," she and the FBI insisted--evidence that the bureau's crack Hostage Rescue Team had fired at least two "hot" military tear-gas grenades during the 1993 Waco siege. The week before, the revelation had humiliated Reno and rekindled conspiracy theories--in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary--that the government had set the fires that destroyed the Branch Davidian compound and killed some 80 men, women and children. And why hadn...
...Statue of Liberty were being designed today, she'd have a video camera instead of a torch. And she would welcome them all to Manhattan--the huddled, sign-hoisting, body-painted masses yearning to be filmed. At the crack of dawn, they're at Rockefeller Plaza, peering into the NBC Today show's glass-walled studios, pestering Al Roker for a chance to say hi to Aunt Connie in Flat Rock. By afternoon, they're choking Times Square sidewalks outside MTV's fishbowl studio in hopes of getting into a crowd shot on Total Request Live. At various other times...
...rappers' multiplatinum recordings celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade. And their transfer to Baton Rouge, as noted in the latest issue of the New Republic, is a corporate decision by Master P, 29, ne Percy Miller. The Louisiana native moved his No Limit Records from locations in Los Angeles and New Orleans last year and is building a large recording studio. No Limit is the nation's top-grossing rap label, with more than $200 million in revenues, and Master P runs a multifaceted empire that dabbles in everything from toys to film to travel. The $56.5 million...