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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is the sort of ignorance we aim to combat. Just like any other cultural or ethnic organization, we simply want the community at large to gain a deeper appreciation of Jerseyan culture, as well as offer Harvard Jerseyans a chance to meet and help each other adapt to life outside the Garden State...

Author: By Michael B. Jobbins, | Title: Jersey Group Has Merit | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...have the romanette-a-clef turned into a movie. But the indie-prod outfit Hecht-Lancaster was a comer - "Trapeze," with Burt Lancaster and Curtis, had hit it big, and "Marty" would win the top Oscar in 1956 - so when they promised Lehman he could direct as well as adapt his story, he bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sidneyland | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bono | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

This picaresque nightmare of a novel was a best seller in its native Russia, where it appeared under the title Generation P--that's P as in Pepsi. It's the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a miserable adman hired by greedy mobsters to translate American jingles and adapt them for a newly capitalistic Russian marketplace. Tatarsky stands in for a whole generation trapped between a discredited Soviet past and a banal, Westernized future, and the absurdity of the situation sends him hunting through the seamy Muscovite underworld for some meaning at the bottom of it all. That he is coached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Zapiens | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bono's Mission | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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