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...American Revolution epic if you aren't going to imbue it with at least a semblance of the truth? According to Mel's version, one man basically brought down the British army (the British, meanwhile, were themselves controlled by a single man who was inexplicably sadistic and decidedly un-British in decorum). I got so bored during the film (I even yawned during the infamous cannonball decapitation) that I started thinking about what might have happened if we had lost the American Revolution. We'd probably still be controlled by the British, we'd have better movies, Jude Law would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Warp Up: A Review of Summer 2000 | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...pleaded innocent, he had to remain in jail, but if he pleads guilty, he gets out of jail - it's so Soviet," said Dershowitz. "It's un-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Media Owe Wen Ho Lee a Mea Culpa? | 9/14/2000 | See Source »

Fear of failure is a great motivator. Hate also works nicely in a pinch. You don't see these emotions in Caroline Brunet's face. They manifest themselves in how the world's best female kayaker trains, how she thinks and how she speaks. With refreshing un-Canadian candor she tells you, "I hate losing more than I love to win." It's been her mantra, first in French, then in English, since age 13, when she won her first race at home in Lac Beauport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Caroline Brunet | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...only trampolining televised in the U.S. is on The Man Show, which has a feature called "Girls on Trampolines" that is highly competitive in a very un-Olympic sort of way. Other than The Man Show's hosts, it's not easy to find hard-core tramp fans. Even Robert Null, Parilla's coach, offers a parsed plug. "I think after this Olympics, more kids will want to do it," he says. "I mean, it's one more way to get to the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: This Is Sport? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...site--which has yet to hear from the FEC--has deals with some 400 e-tailers to give an average of 10% of each purchase to the California Republican Party. But not all merchandise is as red-blooded as Charlton Heston. Some of the ways to give seem downright un-Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes A Village To Give Funds To The Republicans | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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