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Given Harvard’s decentralized structure—deans control their own budgets, do their own planning and jealously guard their empires—the role of the provost at the University was unclear when Rudenstine first raised the idea of resurrecting the post...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Seeks Women and Scientists for Provost | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...come up to my office to chat," says Muneo Ogishi, owner of the Elephant's Egg, a chain of Tokyo head shops that sells magic mushrooms. "They say they're using the drugs to try and meditate." It seems Japanese youth are looking for something, although it is still unclear exactly what. It is certainly not the social consciousness that drove the original hippy movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...giant," Becker says, and whether he is being serious is unclear. As a player, he assumed regal prerogatives, took massages during bathroom breaks, set up to receive serve only when he was good and ready. Of Wimbledon, he'd say, "This is where I live." Before each match that's how he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Becker: Broken Promise | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...they had formed The White Stripes, and over the next two years they recorded an obscure, worthy self-titled album and numerous obscure, worthy singles. Last year they divorced, but the band remained intact and released its most immediately accessible album to date, De Stijl. It's unclear precisely when they began to call themselves brother and sister, but by the time Rolling Stone declared them one of 2001's "Next Big Things" the charade was on. Now their upcoming third album, White Blood Cells (June 25, Sympathy for the Record Industry) is garnering well-earned rave reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White Lies and The White Stripes | 6/16/2001 | See Source »

...Texas law--signed by then Governor George W. Bush--permitting judges to impose public punishment for some crimes. Drunk drivers in the state, for instance, are sometimes made to stand at busy intersections with signs identifying their transgression. Whether more conventional public notifications have worked as a deterrent is unclear. A Washington State study found that such policies didn't keep sex offenders from committing more crimes, though they did help police find and arrest recidivists more quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Scarlet Letter | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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