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...which she did a mime dance portraying Simon of Cyrene, who carried Jesus' cross along part of the Via Dolorosa. Midway through her performance the music cut out, leaving her stranded. The guy in the sound booth, who obviously liked her, scrambled to hook up a reserve tape deck in time to save her performance. The sound guy was Klebold. How does the same boy have fun carrying out the massacre that took her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold: Portrait Of A Deadly Bond | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...trial lawyers, backed by consumer groups and the U.S. Justice Department, retort that the proposed limits on Y2K lawsuits would stack the deck against people who have legitimate claims. According to the proposed rules, a company that makes "reasonable efforts" to fix a defect could get out of paying for the harm it causes--no matter how serious the mistake or the injuries that result. And it would cap punitive damages at as little as $250,000, no matter how culpable the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Y2K Bug Goes to Court | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...recorder. Quality improved in 1989 with the introduction of Hi8 film, and it caught on with some 10 million consumers, making 8 mm and Hi8 the most popular format. (The closest competition is VHS-C, a compact cassette that fits in an adapter that plays in a standard VHS deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Versatile Video | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...well. But nowadays, if I have nothing to do, I do something instead. I didn't have to write this little essay, for instance. Before doing nothing became a lost art, one that I had put a lifetime of training into, I would have gone up to the roof deck for a good nap. I definitely would not have taken the laptop up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Means Something | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...experience was confined to a single game, the first I ever saw, when DiMaggio, suffering from a bone spur, was on his last legs. The mother of a boy in our neighborhood took a bunch of us to the Stadium. DiMaggio hit a drive into the upper deck in right. "You'll never forget that," said my friend's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe DiMaggio: A Hero in Deep Center | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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