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...Along with Yu, a new crop of promising first-years proved themselves by winning the Nickerson Trophy for the New England Freshman Championship title...

Author: By Stephanie Murg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Also on the Charles: Sailing Has Banner Year | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Bloodhound Gang--is proudly white, and they tell you all about it on their songs (Kid Rock's new album, The History of Rock, boasts a track titled Born to Be a Hick). Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks famously explored black identity; the book on the new crop of hip-hoppers could be named White Skin, White Masks. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, has managed to create a media-ready outsize racial persona--dyed blond hair, played-up trailer-trash roots--that can compete with the color and spark of other stars in today's multicultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Whiter Shade of Pale | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...little sense in the business world as it does in the biological. Using Word, Excel and Outlook exclusively on Windows machines in a company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users who had planted their PCs with a slightly more colorful selection of seeds--even just substituting Eudora for Outlook--suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bug Analysis: Why PCs Are Easy Targets | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...prostate cancer and of the woman friend he has been seeing behind his wife's back) does not fit the definition of "All the News That's Fit to Print?" As Proudhon remarked, "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." Suddenly a bumper crop of The Unexpected (including disclosure that New York's Roundhead moralist had been committing adultery) had turned Giuliani's bracing Senate race-to-the-death against Hillary Clinton into something like "Days of Our Lives." Soap opera alters history. Everyone except Rudy says Rudy will drop out of the race now. Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the N.Y. Times Gone Tabloid Over Giuliani? | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...ships are laying down miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable capacious enough to carry 600,000 calls simultaneously. In a high mountain town outside Cuzco, Peru, a co-op of native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like the pups, has skyrocketed in popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Logs On | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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