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They may have named themselves after an evil spirit that has sex with women while they sleep, but Incubus is decidedly not part of the fraternity of rap-metal hybrid acts hell-bent on proclaiming their own alienation. They are sweet lads from Calabasas, Calif., who, after 10 years of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not Your Ordinary Rockers | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

The pattern of attacks and deployments right now suggests nobody's expecting the imminent collapse of the Taliban. Instead, they're strengthening and resupplying opposition forces and grinding away at Taliban supply lines and defenses, hoping to prevent the ruling militia from regrouping before the grueling winter sets in. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Situation Report | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

These problems are not intrinsic to metaphors themselves. Metaphors can, and do, help us understand the tragic events around us. But they should be designed to enhance our perception—to jog us out of our complacent and simplistic emotional response. They should not encourage us to sit idly...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cauldron of Empty Metaphors | 10/17/2001 | See Source »

After so many years of war, Kabul, formerly a cosmopolitan capital, has become a city of grinding poverty, distrust and fear under the watchful eyes of the Taliban and its heavy-handed religious police. Residents have learned to live alongside an array of the Taliban's so-called foreign guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Land of Endless Tears | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

He could keep grinding out meticulous, and well-nigh flawless, gangster movies; it's the genre closest to his heart. But To and Wai, who serves as writer, co-producer and co-director, don't care to be cult figures. They're in business. Movies cost money and in Hong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fulltime Filmmaker | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

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