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...flood the area with mountain bikes, unmarked and marked units," she said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woman Assaulted on River 'Safe Path' | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...anything ominous is afoot. Predrag Bulatovic, vice president of the Belgrade-backed Socialist People's Party, calls rumors of a coup "propaganda" invented by Djukanovic to sow instability and draw NATO into the fight. "The Yugoslav army is not politically motivated," he says blandly during an interview at his mountain farm. "It is a guarantor of stability." The Yugoslav army's top commander, Colonel General Nebojsa Pavkovic, who recently commended Slobodan Milosevic for his "wise and decisive policies that have preserved the dignity of our people," says his troops have been acting in Montenegro only to prevent "the infiltration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slobo's Next Target | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...songs, starting with the Beatles' Let It Be and ending with Eric Clapton's paean to his dead son, Tears in Heaven, saying, "They remind me of when I was young." He's considering adding one of his mother's favorite Vince Gill songs, Go Rest High on That Mountain. Bruce has decided to be cremated, following the wake and memorial service. "The cemeteries are getting so filled," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Supreme Court be damned. The way Jones and others in the mountain community of Forest City see it, their pregame prayer isn't out of bounds. If Justices in Washington are changing the rules and forbidding student-led prayers over the stadium's public-address system, then they have every right to use constitutionally protected radio waves to carry on the tradition. So far, even the American Civil Liberties Union isn't balking at their strategy to get around the court's finding that group prayer at football games amounts to social coercion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Like A Prayer? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...appreciation became even more pronounced when a proudly svelte Bette Midler took the stage - and the audience - by storm. In addition to singing a hypnotic "The Rose" she brought on Spector chanteuse Darlene Love to duet with her on "He's a Rebel" and deliver a powerhouse "River Deep Mountain High." If anyone had given Midler the new party line on safe humor, she had mislaid the instructions, and she interpolated her singing with her trademark Sophie Tucker-esque one-liners. a cascade of ribaldry uncontaminated by PC concerns. One sensed the audience straining to gauge the reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Gore | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

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