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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ghost Light focuses on Rich's parents' divorce, his childhood in Washington, D.C., and, of course, his yen for the stage...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NY Times Writer Relates Life's Mission | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

DENPA SHONEN (Japan) Contestants humiliated--left, say, naked in a room until they earn [yen]1 million in magazine sweepstakes, unaware they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Bites Back | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...because in Protestantism each Christian's experience of the Saviour is incontestably his or her own, unmediated by priest or minister. The new language, critics charged, represented not just a confining literalism but a ceding of personal power to the denomination's scriptural experts. They saw in it a yen for uniformity and orthodoxy that seemed anti-Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Baptists | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...other parts of the world. Output is forecast to rise about 3% this year in "Euroland" (the 11 nations that use the euro as a trading currency). Japan is crawling out of recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that there are growing opportunities for high-tech investment on their continent, if not quite as many as in the U.S. A new index of European technology stocks rose two-thirds last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavyweight Champ | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...fact, there was rejoicing all across the world. First the Asian markets, then the European bourses surged -- along with the yen and the euro -- on the prospect of the Big Bad American Economy being brought just a little bit low. See, the dollar, bolstered by investors and buttressed by rising interest rates, has been beating up the other currencies in the playground all spring. To keep their own currency up, the Europeans especially have felt pressure to hike their own rates along with Greenspan, thus endangering the nice little expansion they've got going over in euroland. Now everybody from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment is up | 6/2/2000 | See Source »

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