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...into the music business. At 15, the lad performed karaoke for an executive of Emperor Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong artist management and recording company. He left school to pay homage to the music muse, and after a rough start?"For two years I had nothing but crap thrown at me"?he skyrocketed as a new Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Time for a Rebel | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Your morning primp time: I usually don’t spend too much time “primping” in the morning, unless taking a crap counts as primping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormroom Dialogue | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Your favorite place to study: I like to study on the can. I know this might sound a little strange, but there’s no better thinking position than the crap-squat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormroom Dialogue | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...than 30 inspection missions during the '90s and earned the enmity of the Iraqis, who accused him of being a spy, with his allegations that they were hiding their true weapons capability. Ritter's many critics - including his former unscom boss Richard Butler, who has called his current notions "crap" - charge that he has inexplicably gone soft on Saddam. The fbi, Ritter claims, is even investigating him on suspicion of being an Iraqi agent. "I've never given Iraq a clean bill of health," he says angrily, noting that although he accepted the use of a car and driver during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Toast of Baghdad | 9/15/2002 | See Source »

...classic populism--we're making TV for the people, not for the pointy-heads--and as The Sopranos demonstrates, it is a load of crap. The show's highest-rated episode drew an audience of more than 11 million (not counting viewers of its repeat episodes), though only a third of American TVs (about 38 million) even have HBO. Not only will ordinary folks watch a show that demands constant attention, resists easy closure, relies on subtext and is rich with metaphor--they will pay near usurious subscription fees for it. In one new episode, Tony sees squirrels eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Back In Business | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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