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...follows two guitar-playing high schoolers as they travel through time in a magic phone booth, nabbing historical figures—such as Socrates and Lincoln—to use in a history class presentation. Van Halen references outnumber complete sentences in this ’80s classic; it’s the pseudo-unintentional comedy of the last 20 years, and booze only makes it better...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinking in History? Whoa. | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...first outlines, came up with the first conceptual ideas, and so I was able to see it from the very, very beginning,” she says. Gary is also the daughter of Tom Wopat, who played the character of Luke Duke on the popular ’80s television show “The Dukes of Hazzard.” As she is not unionized, Gary does not do any official set design. Instead, she helps develop an overall aesthetic for “Pirates” through library and online research, which illustrators and designers then incorporate into...

Author: By Caroline C. Corbitt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Trading iBanking for a Pirate’s Treasure | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...elapsed time between the acts and accountability," says Petit. "It presents issues with the state of memory and the state of documents ... There is the issue of the age of the perpetrators as well." Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998; his surviving lieutenants, in their 70s and 80s, may not live to be sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Cambodia's Ghosts | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...elapsed time between the acts and accountability," says Petit. "It presents issues with the state of memory and the state of documents ... There is the issue of the age of the perpetrators as well." Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998; his surviving lieutenants, in their 70s and 80s, may not live to be sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Cambodia's Ghosts | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...bank's financial innovations were born partly out of necessity. Once an outpost of defunct British investment bank Hill Samuel Ltd., Australian executives carried out a management buyout in the mid-'80s and renamed the bank Macquarie in honor of a 19th century colonial governor. But it wasn't until 1996, when Australia's commodity exports began to result in large budget surpluses for the government, that Macquarie's chief executive, Allan Moss, who had joined the bank in the sleepy Hill Samuel days, saw his big chance. "Bond markets were drying up," recalls Gary Turner, a Sydney-based financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on the Prize | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

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