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...Dreher ?- no matter how the "media elite" may wrinkle its nose at the evangelicals, at the Disney-boycotting gays-are-sinners Baptists, we?re not in the habit of ignoring them. Cassie Bernall, shot in the head in the Columbine library because she copped to God, got a truckload of ink. No, this being the entertainment business, it?s more likely a matter of timing. And the emotional difference between two tragedies ?- another teen massacre, which sickens, and another devastating hurricane, which, on a deep level, is undeniably exhilarating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...cups by day and played the piano for a radio station at night, Kroc's ears were better tuned to the rhythms of commerce. In the course of selling paper cups he encountered Earl Prince, who had invented a five-spindle multimixer and was buying Lily cups by the truckload. Fascinated by the speed and efficiency of the machine, Kroc obtained exclusive marketing rights from Prince. Indefatigable, for the next 17 years he crisscrossed the country peddling the mixer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burger Meister RAY KROC | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Many dads have come to realize that parenting is not simply a "mom thing." The publishing industry has been happy to enlighten them, with a truckload of new books this year for the paternal wing of the family library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Parenting Books | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...into 2000, making the whole process a dagger aimed directly at the heart of Al Gore. Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde could choose, for example, to hold "preliminary" hearings before ratcheting them up to full-scale impeachment hearings, after taking the maximum amount of time to study the truckload of documents dumped by Starr on his doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Heat | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...another rammed his rifle butt at visiting aid workers. One raised his hand toward Emma Bonino, the European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, there to investigate the Taliban's treatment of women, and would have struck her but for an aide's intervention. The next thing we knew, a truckload of armed men were escorting us to the central police station. After several hours, they freed us and returned our cameras but refused to give back the tapes. "Now I know," says Bonino, "what the people of Kabul have to live with every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYRANNY OF THE TALIBAN | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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