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...thing," he pronounced. And then, "I see kids in your future. Sooner than you think. You're going to have a son." Followed by, "Bolder prints for women. Big prints like 1965, '66?that look." And, "Who's Alex? That's someone you'll meet. Maybe for a child. Alec or Alex." Then, suddenly, "Women's shoes. Elegant?I keep getting shoes?the heel is more defined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling The Clairvoyant Hotline | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...Alec Chiquoine, CHICAGO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Jul. 9, 2007 | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...made audiences feel cool as the fast-talking, smart-alec private eye David Addison in Moonlighting. He did it in three Die Hards, Pulp Fiction, Sin City and somehow in that movie where he puts words in a baby's mouth. Can he still make us feel cool in Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth installment of the action series about a normal NYPD cop who always finds himself in the middle of absurdly dangerous terrorist plots? "I'm a gambling man by nature," Willis says of returning to a franchise that started in 1988 and had its last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bruce Willis Keeps His Cool | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...Perhaps the best example comes from within my own suite. One of my best friends, Alec, transferred from the University of Delaware as a sophomore. He was placed with my blocking group for a rather strange reason: One of my other blockmates, Nick, had a nasty run-in with the person the housing office originally assigned to live with us. Alec was switched into our room about two weeks before school started, after we informed the housing director of the situation...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Sometimes, the Wind Blows | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...disagreement between two freshmen in a dining hall—the student had taunted my friend Nick for wearing his ROTC uniform—but that’s as simple as it is. If that kid had kept quiet, I would have likely never really gotten to know Alec, and I certainly would never have lived with...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Sometimes, the Wind Blows | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

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