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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...morbid party game. It has given rise to the dotcom dead pool, a highly popular website run by 24-year-old New Yorker Philip Kaplan (found at the X-rated address F_____dCompany.com) Launched on Memorial Day, it has already received more than 80,000 sign-ups. Kaplan's secret: besides running sweepstakes on the big losers, his site has quickly become the central rumor mill of the Internet economy. Human-resources departments scour it for tips on where to send the headhunters next, and analysts check it before recommending a company to investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This The End.com? | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

Besides, I want to keep my secret tricks of the tall to myself. They wouldn't work if every tall person found them...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: On the Subway, Size Does Matter | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...They've been telling us about [their plans] all along," Berkeley said. "This was not a secret...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Wins Land Auction With $151M Bid | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...mixed-race characters; the devout; chubby gay men over 30. In fact, The Real World's diversity may now be cliche--gay guy, meet the Asian girl; white beatnik, meet the alcoholic. (This year's gay guy, before coming out to his housemates, coyly announced he had "a secret," and regular viewers who had witnessed previous coming outs knew in a split second what it would be. If you use that line by the show's ninth season, you'd better have a severed head in your luggage.) But that casting has also proved genuinely worthwhile. Pedro Zamora explicitly used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Like To Watch | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...young black urban audience this gratuitously violent and graceless remake of Shaft is meant to attract! The problem is not just that Jackson, normally as good an actor as they come, is to Roundtree what George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the deservedly forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), is to Sean Connery. It's that instead of updating the heroic Shaft of the '70s to fit the ambiguous racial climate of the new century, the makers of this disgraceful film have pulled the character inside out and transformed him into a thug. If this Shaft were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Why We Now Can't Dig Shaft | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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