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...teenage tennis champion; and Margot, a famous playwright who wins a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the fourth grade. But following Royal and Etheline’s separation, two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster erase all trace of the children’s early brilliance. As adults, they are now lingering in a melancholic limbo: The adult Chas (Ben Stiller) is still reeling from the death of his wife, and paranoidly dresses himself and his two sons in nothing but red jumpsuits so that they are always prepared for an emergency. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is unhappily married...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Royalty | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...chose to get rid of the bed in his room and sleep on the floor on his FOP camping pad. In order to store his bulky bedding, he built a wood storage chest, courtesy of the skills he learned in a woodworking class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. He praises the teaching skills of the instructors there, noting that “since there is a real possibility of getting your hands cleaved off by a machine, you just don’t pretend [to know what you’re doing].” He brags that...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: All In a Day’s Work | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...notable innovations were to fill my bag with popcorn and to place an adult magazine entitled “Over 50” in my bag for the security checker to see. In both cases, the guards were nonplussed, and I had to lie about their reactions to make the article entertaining. A few years later, now a seasoned editor of the magazine, I constantly kicked myself for not thinking of additional ways to shock and confuse the library checkers. More food—hot food. Tennis balls that rolled out all over the checker desk and floor. A diorama...

Author: By The FM Ex-staff, | Title: Workin’ for the Mag | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...Shibuya district of Tokyo is a teen mecca by day, by night a neon-signed playground of drinking holes and sex clubs for adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...first ever online papal apology, for the clergy's sexual abuse of kids?then plays Everquest until he's slain by an elf Losers MICK JAGGER Solo Stone album sells only 954 copies on first day in U.K. That's pretty good considering most guys his age are wearing adult diapers GERI HALIWELL Ex-Ginger Spice allegedly charges to entertain British troops. Russian soldiers, meanwhile, have been given all the free antifreeze they can drink NUR MISUARI Leader of MNLF orders attack in southern Philippines and his troops get slaughtered. Besides that, it was an excellent plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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