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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Amber Ozier, now 23, attended Mount Bachelor Academy from the summer of 2002 to October 2003 - at about the same time as TA. Her parents enrolled her after she started sneaking out at night and drinking as a teenager. She had also begun smoking marijuana, and her grades were suffering. Several years earlier, Ozier says, her 10-year-old sister had drowned in a lake during Amber's 12th birthday party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...were worried about Amber's life," says Jody Ozier, Amber's mother, regarding her decision to send her daughter to Mount Bachelor. But after hearing Amber's account of her experiences, she says, "I couldn't believe that they did that. I see where it's done her mental harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...English concentrator Amber A. James ’11 said she is happy with the new curriculum. “I joined the English concentration to learn the canon of literature, but there is also a certain degree of agency I want in that,” she said. She added that she believes students will learn more in smaller classes, though she said she hopes concentrators will still have the choice to take English 10a and 10b as electives...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Revamps Course Selection | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...immediate use of the aging acting hero: having Van Damme kick cigarettes out of his fellow hostages’ mouths for his own enjoyment.Taking place for a short time in the United States, and then moving to Belgium for the remainder, the entire movie is shot in a striking amber tone. Aside from more clearly revealing the lines on Van Damme’s face, the hue also serves to make indoor scenes—like those filmed inside the post office—much darker, while adding color and brightness to the world outside. Complemented by a great soundtrack?...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: JCVD | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...closed for years, and the billowing of lace curtains lets in a sudden puff of salty air. Wyeth is moved. Abruptly glimpsing his own reflection in a dusty mirror leads to an unexpected 1949 self-portrait, The Revenant, where he stands perplexed and unbalanced in an abandoned room. The amber glass ball on a lightning rod in Northern Point looks to him "as if it were spinning in mid-air." And after four days of straddling the roof top and examining it with his feverish watercolor brush, Wyeth slowly turned to recapture in tempera that first instant of surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Cover: Andrew Wyeth's World | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

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