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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Music] MCA, Geffen, Def Jam, Motown, A&M, Interscope, Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: World Of The Media Giants | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Video games are for kids. Teenagers maybe. Right? But harried parents don't want to waste time sitting slack-jawed in front of Donkey Kong, Super Mario or even Gran Turismo. Wrong. After 20 minutes with NFL 2K, the premier game for Sega's new Dreamcast machine, I'm a convert. The football experience is totally realistic. It's almost like being there, right down to the touchdown two-steps and the frosty breath streaming from players' mouths (that is, if you've picked the Vikings and Rams to battle it out in a Minnesota blizzard). Uniforms get dirtier, players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in The Game | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...resolved not to let other students "bend [his] morals." While Smith was demonstrating wisdom beyond his years, MANNY HERSHKOWITZ was proving he was young at heart. The 82-year-old made his debut at the U.S. Open tennis championships in Forest Hills, N.Y.--as a ball boy. "I'm in good shape," he reports. "If they invite me back next year, I'll be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...poor, single women who lacked the gumption to write themselves off the dole. "That's absolute rubbish," Rowling says. "This is not vanity or arrogance, but if you look at the facts, very, very few people manage to write anything that might be a best seller. Therefore, I'm lucky by anyone's standards, let alone single mothers' standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...show how evil it is to take a life is to kill someone the reader cares about." Can she possibly mean (oh!) Hermione, (no!) Ron or (gasp!) Harry himself? Rowling discloses nothing, but she does note that the children who contact her "are always most worried I'm going to kill Ron. It shows how sharp they are. They've watched so many movies where the hero's best friend gets killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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