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...potential adult audience for graphic novels and cartoon films should have the U.S. media giants drooling. Just love those demographics! Think of the cross-marketing! A few players are onto anime already. Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is a big investor in Manga Entertainment, the premier U.S. arm for anime. Its spectral cyborg parable, Ghost in the Shell, was the only anime to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Top Video Sales chart. Perfect Blue (a kind of All About Evil, in which a pop diva is both the star and her twisted alter ego) has played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...hard-line elements in China's leadership have slowed economic reforms precisely out of fear that the inevitable unemployment will spark social chaos. So by signing on to the WTO deal, Jiang has come down firmly on the side of the reformists - and created a powerful crowbar with which Premier Zhu Rongji can prize open the economy and ensure its long-term growth despite the short-term pain. After 13 years of negotiations, the U.S. and China have finally agreed on a comprehensive set of rules to govern their increasingly interwoven economic relationship. But selling that deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Jiang's Great Leap Forward | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...With a save percentage of .929 and a goals against average of 0.40, Gunther has quickly established herself as the Ivy League's premier goaltender...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Opens NCAA Tourney Against B.C. | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...games in a semi-professional league, and after those games I was seen by a couple of scouts who offered me tryouts with pro teams," Kerr said. "In April '87, I went on a tryout and played a second-team game with Portsmouth, who was winning promotion to the Premier...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Kerr: Building a Contender | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

First off, he scheduled a meeting four days later at Dick Clark Productions to discuss new quiz-show possibilities. Normally, nursing programs from the brainstorming stage to the air can take forever, but this time the process kicked in at warp speed. Greed will premier on Fox this Thursday at 9 p.m. E.T. and run for three weeks, or longer if it proves to be a ratings winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A $2 Million Question | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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