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Should the mailings fail to elicit a response, the census office will dispatch a fleet of enumerators--men and women who will visit households in their neighborhood that have not yet responded--to offer assistance...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Counting the Masses | 3/15/2000 | See Source »

...young editor could do. In the mid-'90s he edited the San Francisco magazine Might, known for satiric stunts like its hoax faking the demise of Eight Is Enough star Adam Rich. The shoestring operation went bust in 1997, but Eggers landed at Esquire (he also published a dispatch on Cuba in TIME last year). The job left him "burned out," he says, on cheesecake photos, service journalism and celebrity doings. His next project was so retro it's hip: an idiosyncratic literary journal, a magazine that is not a magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dave Eggers' Mystery Box | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...mountain villages, a mysterious stranger suddenly appears, bearing an eerie resemblance to the legendary revolutionary who was assassinated in 1967. His message: Cubans can reclaim power over their own lives in a "radical democracy" without pollsters, socialists or corporate capitalists. As the movement grows, the evil forces dispatch assassins to kill its prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gary Hart Comes Out | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...CITY (HBO) Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and friends patrol Manhattan like a Fantastic Four whose weapons include sarcasm and Prada. Maturing this year from a raunchy romp into an arch cultural dispatch, it's a refreshing story of professional women who don't need the love of a good man so much as want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...When Bank Boston took an extra $16.42 out of my checking account last month, I saw this as a chance to take a big poke at the Man. I tried to reach Cindy in the Dispatch Department, but since it's only November and Lent is in March, I thought it might be best to head over to the actual bank of Bank Boston. Armed with my receipts and bank statements from the last year (one who fights the Man must always have the necessary documents in hand to prove she is correct), I plunked myself down in front...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Fight the Power | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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