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...Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy), Ma$e sold 3 million copies of his 1997 album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits right in and acts just like any other student," albeit one who has been granted special parking privileges. And while he no longer writes paeans to the high life, his academic interests suggest he has not given up on the material world altogether: he has reportedly decided to major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...least Bell has a shot. Most of the two dozen other wannabes are in the race so they can get a "real" job. Or at least an indoor job, as in the case of Republican Roberto Marsili, a stone mason who boasts of an eighth-grade diploma. Democrat A. Robert Kaufman, an intelligent, balding man whose socialist solutions prompted an opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rounding Up The Usual Suspects | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...story with different names attached for the sake of variety. Turow likes to alter the form as well as the content of his novels, and Personal Injuries contains some surprises that are remarkable even by Turow's inventive standards. "This is a lawyer's story," announces the narrator, George Mason, at the very beginning of the book, "the kind attorneys like to hear and tell." What this means is that readers will be taken behind the scenes as a group of lawyers and law enforcers try to gather evidence that will break up a cabal of corrupt judges in Turow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: The Art Of Autumn | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...When it comes to the study of 18th-century music, you can't have a bigger find," said Mason Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff, a Bach scholar whose queries eventually brought the documents to the surface. "Particularly as pertains to the Bach family, it's absolutely crucial...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scholars Find Lost Bach Work | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Having created a character of unadulterated evil, Harris has now proceeded to adulterate him, giving Lecter a traumatic childhood experience to explain the wicked path he later trod. What is more, Lecter is by no means the worst member of the roiling cast of Hannibal; that honor goes to Mason Verger, one of Lecter's two surviving victims, hideously deformed (thanks to Hannibal), heir to his family's meatpacking fortune, a onetime torturer for Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin, and a child molester to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dessert, Anyone? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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