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...savvy shopper could pick up that $34,000 ring at E.B. Horn without worrying about that pesky little $1,700 retail tax; a penny-pinching mom could buy a $25 Tickle-Me-Elmo and put away that $1.25 savings for a rainy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartboard | 11/21/2001 | See Source »

PRINCE CHARLES has trouble with the chickadees. There's that whole mistress business, and the way his mom won't leave her job so he can have it. Then last week, during the Prince's tour of Latvia, a girl named ALINA, 16, slapped him with a red carnation--her way to protest Britain's involvement in the war against Afghanistan and Latvia's attempt to join NATO. That's a lot to expect from a flower that usually only conveys the message on prom night, "Now maybe your parents won't think I'm a total jerk." The 11th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

When the U.S. Census took its once-a-decade snapshot of the American people last year, Gary and Sarah Weiss, who spends weekdays with her dad in Calabasas, Calif., and weekends with her mom in nearby Los Angeles, joined one of the fastest-growing categories in the statistical kaleidoscope: households headed by unmarried men with children. Nationwide, the Census counted 2.2 million of them, a 62% increase over 1990 and a 171% increase in the past two decades. Some are divorced fathers with sole or joint custody. Some are widowers or single men with adopted children. And as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Father Makes Two | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Brave words. But when it came time to tell her parents about Gillespie, Ricks hesitated, knowing his race would be an issue. "I told my mom I met this great guy who was smart and handsome and," she says with a giggle, "a little bit white." Her mother, she says, was "struck dumb." But soon her parents came to know and like her boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: When Love Is Mixing It Up | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...appropriate as the stately and feline Professor McGonagall, and Richard Harris rasps his way through his role as Professor Dumbledore. Other famous stars only make brief appearances: John Cleese hams it up appropriately as Nearly-Headless Nick, Julie Waters is onscreen for two seconds as Ron’s mom, John Hurt sparkles with appropriate wit and gravity as the wand-seller Mr. Ollivander and Warwick Davis (Willow) teaches levitation as Professor Flitwick...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Believe in Magic? | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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