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...called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume; it also alludes to getting crazy drunk) label--has made its way through every city block to the hip-hop mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunk: Hip-Hop's Got a New Accent | 6/29/2005 | See Source »

...gets heavy weekend traffic. "These are young people, 25 to 40, mainly couples. They go on travel tours. They drink beer. It's leisure," he says. Look out, though, when the British stag parties start arriving, says Marketa Sebkova of the Hilton in Prague."They are loud. They get drunk." On fine champagne, no doubt. - By Michael Brunton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...murkier moral choices? Changing the political weather in many countries is exactly what Tony Blair wants to do in the wake of the collapse of the European constitution. In a blizzard of speeches, op-eds and interviews in Europe, he's been trying to reach around the punch-drunk institutions of Brussels to persuade skeptical voters that Europe must modernize or atrophy. Blair loves this role, having perfected it in a career spent admonishing the Labour Party to shape up, but it's a definite departure in European politics. It used to be only the U.S. President who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Playing His Song | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...least that many cross undetected. If the border "invasion" is not stemmed, Ezell predicts, "we'll be overwhelmed. We can't take all the undeveloped countries. We'll become one ourselves." Obviously angry about the problem, Ezell wants everyone to share his emotion. "The public gets mad at drunk drivers. They need to get mad at illegal immigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration's Happy Warrior | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed in everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Satisfying Reconciliations RAIN OR SHINE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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