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...Malawi government charged opposition leader Danga K. Mughogho ’94 Tuesday with excessive use of his car horn, a significant reduction from the original charges for political demonstration and possession of a Playboy magazine...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Faces Lesser Charges in Malawi | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

Barry's new book, One Hundred Demons (Sasquatch; 224 pages), may be her breakthrough, but she's been perfecting her distinctive take on the funny pages since she was a kid in Seattle. "I started selling my drawings pretty early on," she says. "They were a weird amalgam of Playboy and Betty and Veronica. I used to sell those for a nickel." At Evergreen State College, which she describes as a small "hippie" school in Washington State that she attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond the Funny Pages | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...Touch of Venus," But his bread-and-butter, which after a while was caviar and Dom Perignon, was magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy, and even for Hallmark. And if Sam Walton has asked him to, Nash might have produced verse for Wal-mart, except that to force a rhyme he would've called it Wallmark. But his main place of business was The New Yorker, which over a period of 40 years, or approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Ode to Ogden | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

...former Playboy Playmate ANNA NICOLE SMITH, who stands to receive nearly $88 million from her late nonagenarian husband if she wins a battle over his estate in court, has been called many names--but until now, victim wasn't generally among them. The premiere of The Anna Nicole Show, an Osbournes-style reality series in which a camera follows Smith through her everyday routine, snagged the E! channel its highest rating ever by offering viewers the chance to make sport of Smith's ample girth and apparently boozy reflections on such matters as sex ("I wanna have an orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 19, 2002 | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...station ads. That may just be a bit of mildly naughty fun, but a 2001 survey of users of i-mode, the popular Japanese wireless Web service, found that 77% of those aged 20 to 40 received e-mail from porn sites on their phones. Already in the U.K., Playboy has been busy putting together deals with networks to provide, ahem, content. "In the early days on the content side, I think [sex] will be a big, big driver," says Orange executive vice president Richard Brennan. Operators are quick to insist that parents can block kids' access to this stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pretty Picture | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

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