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...made that trip to Congress in a campaign to slap a tax on blank video tapes, arguing that a home viewer's ability to tape movies shown on TV would bankrupt the studios. "We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage unless this Congress at least protects one industry ... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public," he fulminated, "as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...moment," De La Hoya says. "On May 5, it's my job to give Floyd Mayweather that humbling moment." Floyd Mayweather will be hard to make humble. But boxing needs both fighters to deliver that moment. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Tale of the Tape De La Hoya Mayweather 5 ft. 11 in. Height 5 ft. 8 3/4 in. 164 lbs. Weight* 152 lbs. Recorded an album that was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2000 Music Men CEO of hip-hop record label Philthy Rich Records Once trained by Mayweather's dad;TKOed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the De La Hoya-Mayweather Fight Save Boxing? | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...keep offending colleges on their toes. Once the scandal has subsided, a skeptical eye will be turned towards student loans for many years to come. Such public and legal pressure is preferable to federal legislation or regulation. Institutions of higher education are autonomous and largely free from federal red tape for a reason—so they can pursue their educational mission. Even the best intended federal regulations may infringe on the ability of colleges to educate their students. Besides, with so many colleges and universities using different loan schemes and such strong incentives to find new ways to send...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Loaning and Betraying | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...trial was a test case for the Serbian justice system, and the evidence was incontrovertible: a video of the killings recorded by a member of the Scorpions and shared with his comrades as a macabre souvenir. The tape showed six handcuffed victims - two were just 17 - taunted and mocked by laughing executioners. At one point, one of the Scorpions asks a tied-up Muslim boy, who lies face down waiting to be shot: "Have you ever f - -ed?" The boy answers no. "Well, you're not going to, ever," replies the soldier, and all his comrades laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blast from the Past | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...Monday: too strong for helicopters to evacuate the most badly wounded that morning, too strong for candles that night. The vigils would have to wait; the students grieved in the privacy of their dorms. The stately, sprawling campus of Virginia Tech was littered with broken branches; yellow police tape ribboned through a tree as if the gusts had tied it there, mourning those who would not be coming back. The locals said the winds rose to carry the angels down so they could take the children home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Falls | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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