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Kneecap-fracturing, pseudo-Satanic, Slipknot-esque anger-rock, this is not. Welcome, friends, to nu-metal. Once, long ago, metal bands staggered into your town to loot and pillage. Then something weird happened, and suddenly a whole bunch of geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not-So-Smooth Criminals: Alien Ant Farm | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

When their recruits failed to return with loot on Nov. 3, the Vasquez brothers and Parker drove Rook around the Boston area to look for her friends, prosecutors said...

Author: By Robert M. Annis and Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: ‘Pit Kids’ Mourn Slain Woman | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

...much hurting as his money would allow. What most distinguishes White isn't the amount he has given away. Compared with Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to the United Nations, White's largesse is a driblet. But most big givers don't start redistributing their loot until they have made a pile, and many generous magnates, like Turner and Bill Gates, remain very rich even after they have made headlines for their charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philanthropist: Quiet Giver | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...best loot is hidden in the back, past the seahorse skeletons and powdered pangolin. From inside a rusted safe, shopkeeper Zhu fishes out a bundle of cloth and unwraps a precious amber-streaked crescent. "Rhino horn," he whispers. "Straight from Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Medicine | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...protests. Residents were urged to stay indoors from dusk to dawn to help police restore order. Six days of peaceful protest against the sell-off of state enterprises turned violent when police fired teargas into a crowd of students. Criminal gangs took advantage of the unrest that followed to loot shops and burn cars. Hospital sources said three people died from gunshot wounds and another 18 were injured. PERU Montesinos Nabbed Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence boss, is now behind bars after an eight-month manhunt. He is being questioned on bribery, money laundering and murder charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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