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...district is conservative but hasn't balked at a lifestyle that's surprising for the son of a Baptist minister. His wife, who suffers from a chronic illness, has never moved to Washington. He likes night spots, parties, stogies and rock concerts (he once jumped into a mosh pit). A Harley driver, he posed for raunchy biker magazine Easyriders and a spoof calendar called Hunks on the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...children without a Mob guardian b) pit bosses under 300 lbs. c) smoking in the poker rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jun. 11, 2001 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...silence, his secret. A woman on a farm down the road called him "the Unabomber." The oldest woman in the valley, a woman in her eighties, said he had lived in the cinderblock house for forty years, on a shaggy stretch of uninhabited road beside the old gravel pit, which was filled in and covered up a year or two ago and already has vanished undetectably beneath a carpet of new pasture grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of the Neighborhood Hermit | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...producer Konami appear to be following the Pokémon formula to fuel the Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Like Pokémon, the animated TV show brings the characters and plot twists to life. Like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh demands careful strategy to decide which cards to pit against one another. Because you need 40 cards to play the game (players download characters into a Game Boy by inserting the codes printed on real cards), it also plays to kids' penchant for collecting. And though the Game Boy version can be played alone, it's more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Lizard | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...State and federal investigators as well as attorneys for the victims of Explorer rollovers are cheered by the split, because it will enable them to pit one company against the other in court. Accidents involving Firestone-equipped Explorers have accounted for most of the at least 174 deaths and more than 700 injuries that prompted Firestone to recall its 15-in. SUV tires last year. Ford faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling more than $590 million, and the company is bracing for a report on the tire failures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Moreover, Representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Ford/Firestone Fight | 5/29/2001 | See Source »

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