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...defend against that?” Russell asked. “I’m not Bobby Knight. I didn’t throw a chair at anyone. I’ve never been thrown out of a game. I’m a very active coach [and] I call out plays...I have never been verbally abusive towards an official, but how do you say, ‘I never said that?...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Water Polo Coach Fired After Just One Season | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...debut movie, Roger & Me, which detailed his attempt to confront General Motors boss Roger Smith about the social effects of closing a GM plant in Moore's hometown of Flint, Mich., the filmmaker has been America's pre-eminent populist pest. He has taken on Nike's Phil Knight over factory conditions and the N.R.A. and America's gun love. Fahrenheit 9/11 considerably ups his nuisance value: he is after a President's foreign and domestic policy, and Moore is not cowed. "I come from a factory town," he says, "and you don't go to a gunfight with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According To Michael | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...would be a wonderful, good deed if you would all forgive me so that I can go back to college to finish my studies in child psychology." DAWNETTE KNIGHT, in a letter of apology to Catherine Zeta-Jones, after being charged with stalking and threatening the film star

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...prevent heart attacks and stroke. Says Dr. Cary Gross, assistant professor of medicine at Yale: "You can't tell doctors never to try anything except what's been tested." Since 1998, the number of off-label prescriptions has nearly doubled, to around 115 million, according to an analysis by Knight Ridder Newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curbing The Drug Marketers | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...trainee uniform (gray T shirt, black cargo pants, black boots), strapped my leather holster to my side and listened to the first instructor tell the class, "You've got to have a winning mentality. You have to believe you're Superman. Or maybe the Black Knight in Monty Python." I laughed, but my classmates didn't; they just nodded in silent agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life As An Air Cop | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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