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Magazines like Teen Beat have not changed much over the ages. Where the visages of Kurt Cameron, Debbie Gibson and Jordan Knight once stood now stand James "Cut Your Hair" Van Der Beek, Jessica Simpson and, um, Jordan Knight. But one aspect that has changed significantly in the past few years is the coverage of music. Traditionally obsessed with teen pop sensations, Teen Beat, J-14 and other teen trash journals have assimilated the world of alternative rock into its corpus of cool kids...
...very unlikely white knight is galloping over the hill to rescue the American public from the grips of penny-pinching health maintenance organizations: Just call him Dr. Deception. As more people depend on managed care programs for their routine medical care, doctors are increasingly bucking the HMO guidelines in order to give their patients the treatment they need. According to an article published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 39 percent of doctors surveyed in 1998 admitted to having deceived insurance companies at least once. And 54 percent of those physicians reported their rate of deception...
With these two men in key positions, the TVA soon became a fount of largesse for other Gore supporters and advisers. Within weeks of Crowell's and Hayes' swearing in, the TVA hired Washington lobbyist Peter Knight, who had run Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped direct his 1988 presidential bid. It is questionable how badly Knight was needed. The TVA already had four in-house lobbyists, as well as plenty of Congressmen from its seven-state service region, fighting for its interests. It also had a Vice President who hardly needed coaxing to support...
...Knight said the Theatricals' policy about women on the stage, "seems to be no different than the Harvard Glee Club or the Radcliffe Chorus...
...Surge Knight, convicted murderer of Tupac Shakur, has been in a maximum-security prison...