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Both sides insist that any rivalry is merely professional. Vogue is the prestige fashion title for its publisher, Conde Nast, while Bazaar holds the same distinction for its parent company, Hearst. Indeed, from all reports, the women worked well together at Vogue, with Betts' skill as a writer complementing Wintour's impeccable eye. And with the exception of a newspaper article in which Betts, who gave birth to her first child only days after accepting the Bazaar post, expressed disappointment that Wintour had not sent her a baby gift, both women have behaved with determined gentility. Wintour praised Betts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It to The Street | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Anderson and Hernandez, and three ex-students now have development contracts in the big time. But it's a long shot for all of them, says Jim Ross, host of the TV show Monday Night Raw and talent boss for the WWF, where trash talking is an essential skill. "The biggest enemy some of them have is the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Wanna Wrestle On TV? | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...write, so my job is like being a professional talker or doodler, the latter of which, oddly enough, the New Yorker employs. But when the Ice Cream Man in Greenwich, N.Y., announced I'd won its Name That Ice Cream Flavor contest, I realized I indeed had a skill. My work, delivered under the pseudonym of a local resident, crushed the non-professional competition. I not only deserved my paycheck from TIME, but could probably make extra money naming frozen dessert products on a freelance basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste My Brand New Flavor | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...produce such hurdles. While he has the opportunity to create critical wins or losses in each story, he refuses to make plot take over and refreshingly redirects these moments, remaining faithful to character and allowing conflicted desire to obstruct itself. The mosaic storytelling of the film, handled with exquisite skill by editor Dylan Tichenor, is well formatted for this type of examination because in the absence of event, it keeps our interest suspended by cutting between storylines...

Author: By Rajesh Kottamasu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magnolia: Petal to the Mettle: P.T. Anderson's circus of dysfunction is worthy of P.T. Barnum | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...Basic Rifle Marksmanship - is perhaps the centerpiece of our training, as it is the one skill that makes a soldier truly useful. Some of us were already good at it; the rest had to learn that it was more art than science. Get comfortable. Aim straight. Stop breathing. Squeeze the trigger, gently. Targets pop up? You knock 'em down. Simple as that, and damn satisfying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning a Soldier's Core Competency: How to Kill | 1/2/2000 | See Source »

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