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...country waited for the other shoe to drop (somewhere, that is, besides Kenya, Moscow and Bali), it had to do something with all that surplus anxiety. The news and entertainment media were happy to oblige. Stories of random shootings and disappeared and murdered girls were everywhere, from the increasingly graphic, grisly prime-time franchises of CSI and Law & Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Fat Year in Culture | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Like Rowley and Watkins of Enron, Cooper grew up in a household where money was tight. She remembers the lights going out when she was little; her father Gene Ferrell remembers her worrying over him when she noticed a hole in the bottom of his shoe he hadn't told anyone about. As soon as she could get a job, she did. Beginning at age 14, she worked at a series of local eateries, including McDonald's and Morrow's Nut House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cynthia Cooper: The Night Detective | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...mold text without making the author remember that their story was less-than-fabulous in the beginning. (She edited my cheating story via with this method in the wee hours of Wednesday morning last week and it would have been gibberish without her.) But if Liz is the left shoe, she’ll join her right shoe when she struts into the job: the estimable Rachel E. Dry. This magazine never had a better equation for success...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Kids On The Block | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

European investigators are worried that the year-end holiday season will bring another round of al-Qaeda terrorism. Several major year-end assaults have been averted over the past few years, including "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam's foiled plot against the Los Angeles airport in 1999 and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid's bungled effort to bring down a Paris-to-Miami jet last Dec. 22. "Al-Qaeda has attempted attacks during the holiday season since 1999," says a French official, "and we have to assume it'll be the same this year." That concern was reflected in a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Holiday for al-Qaeda | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...testimony suggest that the suspects knew Reid and let him bunk in the basement of a Pakistani restaurant, they probably did not know of his plot. One reason the investigators feel this way: none of the suspects' palms match the prints found on the explosives packed in Reid's shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Holiday for al-Qaeda | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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