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...upfront presentation to advertisers at Madison Square Garden opened with a performance by Lenny Kravitz, an especially apt choice given how much TV-commercial licensing of his songs has done for his career. I'm not quite sure who gets really excited anymore about Kravitz, who's less a rock star than a celebrity who does a believable rock-star impersonation. Nonetheless, among the business-suited throng packing the Garden, more than one middle-aged white ad man was doing that little baby-boomer head bob and tapping his feet to "Fly Away," to show the young associates gunning...
...into selecting TIME's 100, it made me uncomfortable that the Heroes & Icons category, which listed the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, also included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. Schwarzenegger and Gibson became icons as film stars, and their real contributions to the world are mere pinpricks. Bronwyn Noble Madison...
Meanwhile, universities are maneuvering for position, fearing that they could lose their brightest scientists to programs overseas. It was only six years ago that a biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, James Thomson, isolated the first human stem cells from in vitro embryos. But in February, South Korean researchers stunned the scientific world by successfully harvesting stem cells from cloned human embryos--considered the most promising avenue for treating disease. A prestigious American investigator moved to Britain, where the research is encouraged. Now Stanford and Harvard hope to raise at least $100 million each for new stem-cell...
...made me uncomfortable that the Heroes & Icons category, which listed the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, also included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. Schwarzenegger and Gibson became icons as film stars, and their real contributions to the world have the importance of mere pinpricks. BRONWYN NOBLE Madison...
...Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach--like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector--it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This is The Iliad as a WWE SmackDown: violent fights, snappy insults and a connoisseur's idolatry of beautiful brawn. (Who knew Greece had so many blonds?) When Paris cringes from Menelaus and hugs Hector's sturdy...