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...next year to take Emerge's place, says Johnson, will be "a black Vanity Fair. Our hope is to create an editorial product that is smart, provocative, stylish and inviting." It won't be a magazine that puts Farrakhan on the cover, much less Clarence Thomas in a do-rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Militant Voice Silenced | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...enthusiastic he'd much rather occupy his time with a less stressful task, like tending crops, but he reluctantly agrees. Next thing he knows, Commodus has seized the throne and he's been condemned to die. Maximus is able to escape, but he winds up a slave in a rag-tag gladiator boot camp where the greatest thrill (aside from survival) is the chance to compete in the Coliseum. And that is exactly where Maximus, with thoughts of revenge dancing in his mind, is headed after he proves his worth on what essentially amounts to the minor league gladiator circuit...

Author: By William Gienapp, | Title: Antiquity Roadshow | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...light went down and first six notes of "Falling Away From Me" were lost in an explosion of sound. Huge hairy men and small mascara-abusing girls screamed with estatic anticipation. Without wasting a moment of dialogue with the crowd, Korn blitzed through the set. Lasers, lights, an inflated rag doll, three video screen, and gigantic speakers pulsed through the crowd, throwing everyone into a bass beat thrashing. Bodies flew through the air in the pit, while Korn-dogs in the stands forced their way past guards onto the floor. Pandemonium ensued to the tune of "Got the Life," "A.D.I.D.A.S...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Nineties Meet The Teens | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

When General Harrison Gray Otis acquired the Los Angeles Times in 1882, it was little more than a partisan, gossip-filled rag. Over the next century, his son-in-law Harry Chandler and his descendants shaped it into the well-respected newspaper it is today. From their humble beginnings, the Los Angeles Times and its parent Times Mirror Co. have grown into a media powerhouse with several publications and television stations under their control. But after the announcement March 13 that the Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune and various other newspapers and television stations, will...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Times, A-Changin' | 3/22/2000 | See Source »

George W. Bush's new campaign strategy is pretty easy to figure out: be mean to John McCain and nice to the media. It's also a big U-turn. Until he was pummeled like a rag doll in the New Hampshire primary, Bush had it all backward. He went easy on his rival--refusing to attack his "friend John"--and kept a wary distance from the traveling press corps. Not anymore. As he unveiled his new-look campaign in South Carolina last week, including Oprah-style sessions with citizens and banners heralding him as A REFORMER WITH RESULTS, Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: My Jog with George | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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