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...troops are silent. Stunned. Amazon, profitable? It's autumn 1999. For years these people have been racing toward a horizon that no one, save perhaps their utopian-futurist boss, even really sees. They know much of the Silicon Valley/Wall Street/media complex believes the commodification of online retailing will lay their company to waste. Amazon the Web's golden child, darling of NASDAQ day traders who raise its market cap even faster than the company bleeds money, is also Amazon the avatar of all that may be ephemeral and fraudulent about the dotcom revolution. Now Bezos has named a date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...rebels. Caught in the open as they advanced into Minutka Square, seven tanks and eight personnel carriers ran into a devastating barrage of rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades that slaughtered the soldiers as their vehicles exploded in flames. Three hours later, more than 100 Russian corpses lay amid the wreckage, according to on-the-spot wire services. It was an awful replay of the head-on tactics that had cost Moscow so many casualties--and public support for the war--in a similar assault on Grozny five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lessons | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

While Prasse-Freeman's shooting is still suspect (4-of-12 on Saturday, including 0-of-3 from three-point range), his assist-to-turnover ratio has improved, going 9-to-7 against Northeastern. He continually impressed with no-look bounce passes inside that led to easy lay-ups, and while he made some ballhandling errors late in the second half, Sullivan said he isn't worried...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Notebook | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

LIZA MINNELLI Garlandkind stars on B'way, quits drugs. Next Sardi's visit, lay off the cheesecake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Monday, a few more Vermonters can lay claim to their state's motto. The Supreme Court of the "Unity and Freedom" state declared that under the state's constitution, gay and lesbian couples must be granted the same benefits and protections enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. But the ruling is something of a mixed bag for gay-rights advocates. While the state has already approved legal protections to gays' and lesbians' housing, employment and civil rights, TIME writer John Cloud says, "this ruling is more of a defeat than a victory." The court, rather than make what Cloud calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Wedding Bells Yet for Vermont's Gay Couples | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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