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Many arrestees smiled like martyrs, or joked with police, who responded cordially. One man hopped on one foot between the police escorting him to the bus, kicking the other leg out in a black boot can-can. The plain-clothes officer by his side smiled...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...descent is much harder than the ascent, but you don't know that yet. The novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Down The Canyon | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...step and need to be airlifted out. Two well-fed American girls in nice clothes, both ambulatory. One of them sobs in a well-practiced way, and if you weren't here to see her, you'd think she had crawled for 10 miles through cactus dragging a broken leg behind her. She cries out, "But my dad will pay for it!" They beg. Please, please, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Down The Canyon | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...keep coming back for more? Because every once in a while I get lucky. Like the night the gang stayed up late playing truth or dare. Or the times Eddie, the Long Island tough who lost a leg to cancer, tells anyone who will listen, "Chicks dig me. I dunno why." Or when Brittany, the pink-haired virgin, innocently persuaded Karen, the unhappy housewife, and Josh, the surfer heartthrob, to cuddle with her as a threesome in the "big bed of looove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm a Web Zombie | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Which pretty much covers Napster's business model, and which should surprise no one. Despite the spindly legal leg on which the company stands these days - that it just sits there while other people may or may not break the law - it's pretty intuitive that their business is the free distribution of a product lawfully controlled (not to mention heavily invested in) by record companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Hit Pause on Napster | 7/27/2000 | See Source »

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