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According to Combs' friend Russell Simmons, chairman of Def Jam Records, the attack on Stoute erupted from a moment of superheated passion. "Sean is an artist, and artists are about guts and instinct and emotions," Simmons says. "He's not a gangster." Says Strauss Zelnick, CEO of BMG Entertainment, Bad Boy's parent company: "It's unkind and unfair to judge Puffy on one incident...
...Skip the Movies and Rent a Video feature of the week? On a lean Friday for theatrical releases, it's easy: "Instinct." Starring Anthony Hopkins as a homicidal anthropologist in prison for acting like an animal and Cuba Gooding Jr. as his across-the-table Clarice Starling, this is directly targeted at the I-can't-wait-for-Hannibal-the-sequel crowd. Instead, stay home with the fava beans, the Chianti and "Silence of the Lambs." That's one option -- "Manimal" reruns are another -- but for hairy hearts of darkness, why not skip right to "King Kong...
While Gore's aims can seem mushy, his methods are not. In a White House whose first reflex is to try to talk every problem into submission, Gore's instinct is to send in the Marines--or, lately, the Air Force. In Haiti the Vice President took on the skittish tacticians who fretted over the risks of invasion and the futility of trying to salvage a country that even in its better days was a social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake...
...where students use computers, slouch, and get stressed out, have so few students even heard of the disease, much less suffered from it themselves? Maybe it is in what Prof. Harrington calls the "context" of a disease. Gordon, with a note of amusement in her voice, describes a herd instinct she has observed in students reporting problems, "Whenever there s an article in the paper about that sort of thing we get a lot of people in here wondering if they have it." If RSI and chronic pain conditions like it are as culturally mutable as recent models suggest, perhaps...
...given at least some cliques around the country pause. At Trumbull High School in Connecticut, the Goths have stopped wearing their trademark trench coats. And students in more mainstream cliques may be a little more cautious about taunting students who don't fit in--if only out of an instinct for self-preservation. "I'm not going to talk about them anymore," says Nathalie Kirnon, a Trumbull freshman. "They might do it here...