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Remember driving with your parents and hearing a song that had a cringe-inducing bit of innuendo? Remember the awkward silence you shared as they tried to figure out if you knew what it meant and you tried to figure out if they knew you knew? Relive that precious moment with Scandalous, in which the spelling-impaired British hip-hop trio drops such lines as "Solid as a rock/How many ways can you hit the spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The 12 Songs Of Summer | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...situation. As long as Nader is in the race, Kerry will need to tend his left flank, which could make it harder for him to appeal to centrist swing voters. Come fall, Kerry could also find himself in a situation similar to what Gore faced--be forced to spend precious time and money campaigning in states like Washington and Maine that, without Nader in the race, would be solidly in his column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nader Effect | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

True to the economist in him, Ferguson finds fault with the way Oxford and Cambridge allocate their most precious academic resource—their professors. Ferguson says that undergraduate history students, with their diverse backgrounds and interests, can be taught in a large class instead of in a small, Oxford-style tutorial...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb and Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ferguson Readies for Harvard | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...There are precious few Vietnam veterans in the three branches of the federal government. That absence permeates through all elements of our society from the faculty in Harvard University (student deferments personified thirty-five years after) to business, non profits, foundations, the legal profession, physicians...

Author: By Jack Mclean, | Title: Privileged Should Heed Kosman's Message | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...fortune) and away from their big fears (like being cheated on). Unlike us, the Sims get a final life score. But like us, they get to live on through children, whose features are an adorable random mix of those of both parents. They get to record the most precious moments of their Sim lives through in-game cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Sims 2: Virtually Mortal | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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