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...sin," wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, getting to the dead center of all human stories, "is an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Difference Between Sin and Circumstance | 6/28/2001 | See Source »

...that's a cardinal sin in the bumptious, peevish world of jazz, where, as it's said about academic politics, the knives are so sharp because the stakes are so low. The grievance? Along comes a young, good-looking, white jazz singer who mostly performs familiar standards and stays pretty close to the melody--Diana Krall was the last such transgressor--and an entire generation of innovators gets ignored. Sad to say, this is absolutely accurate. It's also irrelevant--this kid can sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Newest Jazz Singer | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...South's sin city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Atlanta: The Seamy Gold Club Trial | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

CBCPNET, the largest internet service provider in the nation, is run by the Catholic bishops conference of The Philippines: "your alternative ISP with a mission," as its slogan goes. A nonprofit organization, it lures users from the wages of sin by offering them prepaid internet cards so they can go online - to send and receive e-mails and access any number of "good" sites - for about $2 for seven hours, one-third of what commercial providers charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Once Was Lost, but Now I'm Wired | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Doctor Huang is a transplant specialist with a very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Line | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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