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...drug shipments is seized by U.S. agents. Although DEA officials are not exactly sure where Carillo lives (somewhere in Chihuahua, they think), when he was born (perhaps 1955), or what he looks like (they have only one photograph), they do know that he is the smoothest, smartest and most powerful of Mexico's drug lords. He is allegedly the leading figure of the "Mexican federation," a loose amalgam of families that has turned Mexico's drug trade into one that rivals Colombia's in its pervasiveness and the danger it poses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEIGHBORS | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

Intimacy, a lack of pretense and an openness to the freshest, smartest talent were the Vanguard's hallmarks from the beginning. Gordon, a Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A ROOM WITH A VIBE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...video and its setting make up just one of dozens of striking exhibits in perhaps the smartest display of Native American culture ever assembled: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which opens this week in New York City. The museum is housed in the Beaux Arts splendor of the 1907 Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which has been elegantly restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CULTURE: Of Spirit and Blood | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...Kelly played some of the best and smartest tennis I've seen from her," Graham said. "Both our captains played really good singles and broke out of minor slumps...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Netters Shine At Invite | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...against it again and again. Let's see how eager they are to be tagged soft on crime." Clever politics? Maybe. Good policy? Hardly. There's still time to do it right, still time to pass a bill the President can finally accurately tout as the "biggest, toughest and smartest" ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Fix the Crime Bill Now | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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