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...becomes her boyfriend, his punkness and her cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn't be able to remain two minutes in the same locker room without bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...witch hunt goes on, as burned investors and their designated protectors assign blame for the Internet bubble. Last week fresh testimony in Washington detailed the sordid ways some analysts conduct business, and more high-profile lawsuits surfaced--some naming bubble queen Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley. There's enough indignation coursing from Main Street to Wall Street to K Street to keep the bar at full employment for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigate The Investors | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...camels. Despite fixed rates, overcharging is the norm. The drivers are rude, the hiring and negotiating shambolic. Flies swarm the animals and the dung they liberally scatter across the potholed roads. When you reach the entrance to the mausoleum that Emperor Shah Jahan built for his second wife, Queen Mumtaz Mahal, hawkers touting miniature Taj Mahals, bottled water and postcards, add to the chaos. You may shake them off, but you won't escape being stung at the ticket counter. Foreigners are expected to pay $20 rather than the 40 fee for Indians. Slouching by the gates, bored-looking policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taj Mahal Struggles to Keep its Luster | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Korea's leader makes state visit to Moscow in armored train. Obviously, he's worried about being mobbed by screaming teen girls ALLAN HOUSTON Basketball guard signs $100 million contract with the Knicks. During press conference he vows to live lavishly and acquire expensive cars Losers PRINCE PHILIP Queen's hubby tells 13-year-old aspiring astronaut he's too fat for space. This from a man whose son said he wanted to be a tampon PEDRO ALMODOVAR Spanish director riles activists by killing four bulls during filming. His first flicks?Kill All Bulls and Kill All Bulls II?should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...ASSASSINATED. PHOOLAN DEVI, 38, outlaw-turned-politician whose life was depicted in the 1994 film Bandit Queen; in New Delhi. The lower-caste Devi was sold into marriage at age 11, fled, and joined a gang of robbers. To avenge her rape by a group of upper-caste men, she allegedly led the massacre of 22 men and was jailed for 11 years. A hero to India's dispossessed, she was twice elected to parliament. BANNED. JAMES ARCHER, 27, for life from trading in London's financial district for his 1998 manipulation of the Swedish stock exchange while working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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