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...Cleveland, Ohio. Usually, his staff rents a mere midsize car for him when he travels, but when the folks at the rental counter heard it was Ralph Nader who'd be tooling around in their vehicle, they offered an upgrade. This is a rare indulgence, though, in this shoe-string campaign. Nader has no motorcade, no private jet. He travels with just one staff member, flies coach and looks more like a rumpled academic than a presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Just Mad About Nader | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...strategic visionary, an operations hawk and the chief salesman--meanwhile keeping Wall Street investors happy. "You've got to get in front of Fidelity one day and Janus the next and still keep the shop running at home," says management consultant Gary Stibel. As the past year's string of departures reveals, many ceos aren't up to the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood in the Boardroom | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...didn't invite me. That's ok. I won't invite her to my It Boy and It Girl Mixer... Christina Aguilera is having vocal chord problems and had to cancel a slew of concerts again for the second time in a month. This sounds strangely similar to the string of "maladies" which sidelined Whitney Houston while she was off smoking the ganja... Karmic revenge seems to be a hot topic this week. I overheard one boy in Lowell dining hall telling his friend: "Look at that girl now. She's fat. She's put on a good...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...there. Just as you begin to think that the festival isn't really that sick, on comes a "Birth of Abomination" flick in which a buck-toothed, blue-haired individual named Motormouth swallows the newborn infant of a prostitute, leaving the umbilical cord dangling from his mouth like a string of spaghetti. And then comes the "Sloaches(tm) Fun House." I'm not even getting into the "Sloaches(tm) Fun House"-The Crimson, after all, is a family paper...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time for S&M With Spike and Mike | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...Thursday, NASA officials unveiled a new, long-term plan for exploring Mars that is marked by a cautious schedule, painstaking attention to detail and a major jump in spending. The agency's slower-safer-more-expensive philosophy comes after a string of devastating failures during NASA's quick-and-dirty regime, which included the mysterious disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Life in the Mars Program? | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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