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...time, with the Immunity Challenge. It was a Rube Goldberg-type thing, with fire and water and buckets with holes in them, just to finish off the last of the tribe's physical reserves. (Colby won just to be The Man. We'll see if it comes back to haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nick, the Devil and the Trouble With Paradise | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Most married women don't go for the flashy gigolos who haunt karaoke parlors in their black-leather togs. They're for the younger girls who hanker to pair up with a bad boy for a night. Instead, rich urban wives want the kind of guy they envision for their daughters: well-mannered, well-groomed, well-heeled. By day Zhang sells real estate, and his Beijing apartment is filled with pale blond Ikea furniture. He doesn't need the money, really, but he's longing for a new Zegna suit, and his latest patron - the 48-year-old wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Works Hard for the Money | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...sound is a mix of programming and instrumentation, and the result has often been spare beats and a repeated chord that crescendos in silence, or sudden musical murk. This format is not at all abandoned on The Red Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...

Author: By Benjamin E.lytal, | Title: Fear, Loathing | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

February. Write like hell. In a blaze of term-billed printing and caffeine, a thesis will emerge. Last-minute sources will be consulted and all the "get-to-that" notes will come back to haunt you. Much to your surprise, you will have an argument with cogent research and a grasp of the field. You will go to your advisor with a problem, but in explaining it you will figure out the answer and rush out to write it down before you forget. Save that insight, and back it up on the network, your parents' computer and in three...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A Thesis Diary | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...hold on its disciples as any religion. And there really is a cult. The Takeshi Gundan, a group of some 100 apprentice comics, young men who adore Beat and emulate him, sprang up in 1983. They gathered at a yakiniku restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku district?a popular Takeshi haunt?waiting for a glimpse of their master. The restaurant became known as the holy shrine to Beat; his followers began to call him tono, or "lord." "We waited outside for four hours, just to see him," recalls Hakase Suidobashi, 38, who grew up in Okayama but enrolled in a Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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