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...Cheung could qualify as a monument to pop longevity if he was not still in his glistening prime?and if he was not still so damned gorgeous. Any visitor to Hong Kong who mentions his name to a local will hear the same refrain: "Guess how old he is" (as if he kept a rotting portrait of himself in the attic). Cheung is 44, and if he has changed at all during his half-life in the public eye, it is to become more wily in the lavishing and husbanding of his allure. He simultaneously seduces and withdraws, flirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Leslie | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...fashion and style columnist, although goodness knows how that would’ve ended up. (Ah well, here’s my two cents’ worth—Botega Veneta: Cool but a bit too early-2001? Prague: So 1990s. My Philippe Starck lemon juicer: Eternal.) I guess I could’ve been a sports columnist, although knowledge of English soccer and Formula One racing probably wouldn’t cut it in a college newspaper. I even wanted to discuss punctuation and other matters of style, á là Fowler or Safire...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In The Mix: The Farewell Edition | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...guess I’ll probably be going to Blockbuster in Central or Porter Square now,” he added...

Author: By Kristoffer A. Garin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Videopros Prepares To Close Its Doors | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...level, such a request is misguided, because it reduces the moral force of the protests. I believe PSLM is sincerely committed to its cause, and suffering is not the only means to show sincerity. But I would guess that at least some of the 50 percent of students who find the sit-in unjustified consider a protest the University offers to supply with food, soap and other necessities to be more like Progressive Student Summer Camp—all the protest and none of the consequences. If PSLM had simply padlocked Mass. Hall and refused to reveal the combination...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Let Them Fail | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

...swarming the presidential palace. On Monday they came close to breaking through the outer perimeter of the palace. So she's arresting these people because she says they're trying to overthrow her government. But whether these arrests decrease or increase the danger of a coup is anybody's guess. Right now the streets of Manila are pretty deserted, and there's razor wire all around the palace. But the demonstrators have been chased back to Manila's shanty towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Philippines Turmoil Highlights Class-Based Politics' | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

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