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...Gibson earned the title of 1997 Man of the Year last night...
...found Mikki Halpin, Stim's erstwhile editor, sitting among a double row of mauve, mostly vacant cubicles. Stim (named after William Gibson's imaginary "digital drug") was typical of the flood of 'zines that launched last year. It was silly and fun and new, and it took the kinds of risks you don't take if you've already found a market. In the weeks preceding the Democratic National Convention, for instance, Stim's political commentator was forbidden to read or listen to press accounts of the presidential race; he had to write his stuff cold. Then when the Dick...
...directed Sling Blade, an Oscar nomination or two next week. The tale of Karl's return home after 25 years in a mental hospital, and of the awful temptations to repeat his crime, has already turned the actor into Hollywood's guy du jour. Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are vocal fans of the film, and Thornton's fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton is expected to screen it at the White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles in A pictures: as Sean Penn's nemesis in Oliver Stone's U-Turn...
...belief on campus that hostility toward the new female knobs--as Citadel freshmen are called--would be tolerated, or at least overlooked, by the administration. For coeducation to work, more than a written plan was needed. "Somebody would have to be a moron [to let this happen]," says Paul Gibson, the South Carolina attorney retained by Messer and her parents. "They knew the eyes of the world were upon them...
...campus persists that Messer and Mentavlos were not making the cut, while cadets commonly use superlatives when talking about Mace and Lovetinska. Says Brett Strand, a junior: "I've heard it from more than one person, they're some of the best knobs we've ever had." But Gibson insists that his client, Messer, a member of ROTC in high school, was as tough as they come. Adds Kulp: "Were this a situation where after the first week [Mentavlos] was calling it quits, as did a number of male cadets, maybe that might be worthy of analysis. But she completed...