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...rankings played a bit of a role," said first-year law student Bruce W. Hickey, "But you take these things with a grain of salt. They're trying to make distinctions that you can't capture numerically in terms of overall assessments of an institution...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tops Annual U.S. News Grad School Rankings | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...isolated Lang at center stage. Thanks to Andy Warhol, artsy for artsy's sake is now status quo. On top of that, the non-stop songs pummeled my body with their monotonous cacophony for so long that I was like a disintegrating slug that slipped on a pile of salt. My mind was screaming stop the madness, but those cries were drowned out by Lang's rawhide-cured vocals and even more subsumed by the combination of non-stop drums, three guitars and two keyboards. In a word, it was loud...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HERE'S JONNY! | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...toplight isolated Lang at centerstage. Thanks to Andy Warhol, artsy for artsy's sake is now status quo. On top of that, the non-stop songs pummeled my body with their monotonous cacophony for so long that I was like a disintegrating slug that slipped on a pile of salt. My mind was screaming stop the madness, but those cries were drowned out by Lang's rawhide-cured vocals and even more subsumed by the combination of non-stop drums, three guitars and two keyboards. In a word, it was loud...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

What happens when an irresistible force hits an immovable object? It cracks a little. On Wednesday, the fury of the Salt Lake City Olympic bribery scandal produced its first significant fallout at the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee. The body voted to expel six members implicated in the taking of hundreds of thousands of dollars in graft during the site selection process for the 2002 games. At the same time, the committee overwhelmingly voted to express its confidence in the leadership of its embarrassed and embattled president, Juan Antonio Samaranch. The votes were expected, says TIME assistant managing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOC Expels Six Members | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...funny thing happened last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. After Ricky Martin's electrifying rendition of La Copa de la Vida performed the musical equivalent of CPR on a listless Grammy Awards telecast in Los Angeles, fans descended on Salt Lake's record stores and picked them clean of the Latin singer's albums. Runs on his albums were reported in L.A. and Miami too, but none was more surprising than the one in Salt Lake, a town better known for its allegiance to the Osmond Brothers than its enthusiasm for Latin pop. Grammy host Rosie O'Donnell summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spicing The Mix: Latin pop prepares to take on America | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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