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...Politically inspired rock band Rage Against the Machine's new hit CD, The Battle of Los Angeles, includes a plea to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a police officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gallows Glamour | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...help, or even enhance, her career." As for Combs, who has proclaimed his innocence, his latest CD, Forever, hasn't sold well, and these new legal hassles only add to his worries. Just last April, Combs was arrested for assaulting a record executive, a matter he settled with a plea bargain, a payout and a day in anger-management class. He is due in court to face the new charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrested Development | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

BILL GATES Judge sez he's predatory monopolist. Hit ESC, cop a plea and finish cleaning Windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1999 Winners & Losers | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...superstardom after Snoopy adopted his World War I flying-ace persona, zooming into the lucrative blue yonder of endorsements and licensing. Snoopy electric toothbrushes and snack cakes--there's a little Woodstock in every Pikachu under your tree this year. And yet Schulz's Christmas special is a plea against commercialism, in which Charlie Brown nurses a desiccated Christmas tree (twig, really) to health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good and the Grief | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...shelter and a mildly entertaining Oscar-night show that gets us to bed before sunrise. Hollywood, in all its benevolence, is hard at work on granting us the latter. The producers of next year's Academy Awards show, husband-and-wife team Lili and Richard Zanuck, made a public plea this month to intermittent emcee BILLY CRYSTAL, who last year ceded the hosting duties to Whoopi Goldberg. "It's the one thing people agree on--they all want Billy," said Lili (kindly refraining from adding, "just not in any more of those City Slickers movies"). Heeding our quality-of-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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