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...council meeting on April 9, at which residents shouted for an explanation of the Thomas shooting. Luken walked out as the meeting degenerated into a screaming match. "I would not have walked out," Fuller told the audience of 300. "To walk out, I think, took the lid off the pot." Luken responded that he had left because he had appointments to keep. Within hours, crowds had started rioting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anchors Aweigh | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

Hingis has kept her title by being consistent and avoiding injury. Capriati, a prodigy who made the French Open semifinals at 14, dropped out of tennis, gained weight, got a nose ring and then was arrested for shoplifting and pot possession. But, like a Lifetime movie producer's dream, she came back with a chiseled bod and became the dominant woman on the tour, storming through the Australian Open and winning the French before losing in the Wimbledon semis. "I think she's the greatest story in sports in the last 20 years," says McEnroe, who believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Game | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...million of its citizens--18% of those ages 15 to 64--have tried marijuana at least once, and about 15 million have done so in the past 12 months. Young people toke the most: 25% of 15-to-16-year-olds and 40% of 18-year-olds have tried pot at least once. In the past decade, the number of people who admit to smoking at least once in the past year has doubled in many European countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Goes To Pot | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...liked big butts, and he could not lie. AFROMAN likes marijuana, and he's not lying either. Afroman's tribute to pot, Because I Got High, from the soon-to-be-released album The Good Times, is the most requested track at countless radio stations around the country. Afroman--actually Joseph Foreman, 27--admits to smoking illegal substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 20, 2001 | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...ranging from blaming his wife to stating everybody did this (or at least every billionaire did this) and that, at any rate, it was an honest mistake. Most Thais, inasmuch as they follow politics, believe Thaksin was probably guilty. Yet, in part because of his chicken-(curry)-in-every-pot populism, they are ready to forgive him in order to get on with the business of getting rich. He's promised them a million baht for every village, has told them of his One Village, One Product plan, has instituted a new micro-lending program, and he's already delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Clear | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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