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When politicians leave office, they tend to spend their time flying around the world giving speeches on things like globalization and nation building. In other words, doing pretty much the same stuff they did when they had a job. But LECH WALESA, 59, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis...
Columbine is a Molotov cocktail of interviews, cartoons, news footage and righteous rabble-rousing. It is also a road movie in search of the troubled soul of America. As Moore told TIME: "It's a film about why we're so violent toward each other, and why we tend to export a lot of this violence around the world. Because otherwise we're actually pretty good people...
Once a musician is described as a "bad boy icon," his 15 minutes of fame tend to be up. So why is EMI betting the farm on Robbie Williams, the British crooner and former "fat dancer" from Take That who has sold a respectable but unspectacular 692,000 records in the U.S.? Williams's new deal is estimated at around $90 million, the largest ever for a British artist. In part, EMI is playing to the global market; Williams has sold nearly 20 million records worldwide since 1996. But the company has been burned before: in 2001, it signed Mariah...
...song, featuring the majority of their tracks from Osaka, with a few new ones thrown in. Although surprisingly little dancing or moshing broke out in the crowd, their appreciation was clear. Alas, this is one of the tradeoffs of the intimate crowd—fewer numbers means people tend to feel more self-conscious and less likely to lose themselves in the anonymity of the crowd...
This fact leads candidates to stay away from issues that are important to young adults and avoid most college campuses all together. Students tend to respond by not voting at all and the cycle of voter apathy keeps on spinning. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Young adults can make a difference in America’s political system but they have to be willing to invite themselves to the party...