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...have to give New York City mad props for celebrating each Yankee World Series victory like it's their first. That city truly takes pride in its team, even when no one else outisde of the tri-state area can stand the Bronx Bombers...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...find jobs for qualified minorities as writers, directors, producers and executives. Mfume says the coalition is nearing agreements with Fox and CBS. The ABC deal emphasizes scholarships, mentoring and training. The NBC pact creates a minority writing position on each show returning for its second season. (If Stark Raving Mad is renewed, maybe they'll draw straws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: City Of Angels | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Prozac Defense II, 1996 --Edward J. Leary claimed that a cocktail of Prozac and other drugs drove him mad and made him firebomb two subway trains. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: 94 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If the Twinkie Causes Fits, You Must Acquit | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...happy to report no one has gone mad on our farm this winter. We pile on stove wood and wait for spring, when the skies will open and rain frogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deep Freeze Leads to Deep Unease | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went mad; men shot themselves and each other. Many cattle exposed on the prairie were too weak to withstand the gale: They simply blew over and died. Others kept their footing, until their hoofs were locked in ice, and they froze like so many statues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deep Freeze Leads to Deep Unease | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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