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...building. Office workers groped through dim hallways toward daylit exits, subway trains coasted into motionlessness, and tourists stood around in knots, prevented by guards from entering the darkened Capitol. But no mere utility collapse could be allowed to shut down the U.S. Senate. Under the pallid glow of a lone emergency light, the lawmakers went about their business as usual. Since the bells normally used to call the Senate to order had been knocked out, a clerk gained the attention of the nation's most exclusive debating society by thumping loudly on a metal trash can. Quipped Majority Leader Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights Out on Congress | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Even in his playing years Cobb assumed a mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failures Can't Come Home | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...type with what looks like chalk dust in his hair to make him look middle-aged) is another of Cimino's righteous madmen, a police captain brought in to clean up New York City's Chinatown. It is an uphill battle, against inscrutable thugs, a silky tong lord (John Lone), a TV reporter (the incompetent actress Ariane) and preposterous dialogue by Cimino and Oliver Stone. Soporific when it is not offensive, Year of the Dragon may some day engender a confessional memoir from Dino De Laurentiis, who was gullible enough to produce this crime against film. He could call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Guess Who Flunked the IQ Test? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...likely fill the sizeable void left by departing wide receiver Brian Edwards. Edwards fielded 29 punts for 348 yards and three touchdowns in his final year and, as a mid-season addition to the kick-return unit, ran back 12 kickoffs for 321 yards and the corps’ lone score...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O'Hagan Controls Destiny, For Now | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...Where you going, sir?” Armstrong shouts out to the lone passenger on board...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To the Quad, With a Smile | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

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