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...American Civil Liberties Union, which helped draft the current bill, as well as the 1993 law, now opposes it unless an amendment makes clear that religious claims cannot be used to defeat civil rights laws. Civil rights advocates are concerned about such groups as the World Church of the Creator, for example, which claims a religious belief in promoting the white race. Gay lawyers say the bill would allow conservative Christian landlords to refuse to rent to gay people even in states with laws protecting lesbians and gays from housing discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law on Bended Knee | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side, B2B companies are businesses like any other. Many will go under in the postboom shakeout that will inevitably take place. Says Mark Walsh, CEO and president of VerticalNet, a creator of 43 online industry-specific trading communities (commonly referred to as verticals): "What you see today are a lot of technology companies or single-focused verticals that are declaring war on the old way of doing business," he says. "Each of these companies claims that it is going to change forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Trade Stampede | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...buzz about the new game - which will be known as American McGee's Alice, after the game's creator - is huge, and that's exactly what Electronic Arts hoped for. The announcement was preceded by 13 weeks of more or less cryptic hints - music boxes, the sound of children laughing, portentous poems. Even now, little hard information has been released. The game's official site carries an image of a Cheshire Cat with an earring, a skeletal neck, and a more sinister smile than Carroll probably originally envisioned. It also features scraps of verse along fairly predictable lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quake Meets Alice in Wonderland? | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

...summer competition, while Beggars' ratings have not taken off, despite fairly positive reviews. Action, however, will prove a big test. It's got notice for bringing pay cable's profanity to broadcast, but another risky import is the deep-insider view that worked for Larry Sanders' select, limited audience. (Creator and executive producer Chris Thompson, who was executive producer of Sanders, originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays Dragon with an intriguingly baby-faced venom, looming over the show is the ghost of the short-lived Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mirror Images | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

DIED. STAN DURWOOD, 78, ebullient creator of the now ubiquitous multiplex movie theater; of esophageal cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Durwood opened his first fully planned multiplex in 1962--with The Great Escape playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 26, 1999 | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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