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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawrence Kasdan attempts to tell the tale of Doctor Mumford (Loren Dean) and the wide variety of patients and personas that he encounters through his small town practice. The dominant flaw of the film is Kasdan's unparalleled ability to get sidetracked. Perhaps he was distracted by episodes of America's Most Wanted, perhaps by cheesy soap operas, or maybe even by an episode of Judge Judy. The only word that sufficiently describes the plot of Mumford, and I'll I say it three times, is random, random, random...

Author: By Kelly L. Ramundo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kasdan's Slice of Life Not So Appetizing | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Stanford's 1998 season ended with a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Indiana, and for its effort it received the a No. 2 preseason ranking in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Heads to California | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Kovach capitalized on these historic changes by bringing more international journalists to Harvard and helping to encourage a free press in countries throughout Eastern Europe and Latin America. These accomplishments, he said, were his proudest achievements...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nieman Curator to Step Down | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...announced panelists, Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible and Nicholas Lemann '76, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Spills 'Secrets' of SAT in Arco Forum | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...research, and I also got a lot of Arab advisors to help me. We had a mullah serve as an advisor during the whole project. We had a lot of people advising that were in Iraq at the time of the Gulf War, refugees that came to America, and most of the scenes in the movie of cruelty and murder, even some of the conversations, did actually come from real life. Also, I got a lot of inspiration from news accounts of the conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book on the war--their front page every...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Russell Trades in Dysfunction for Treasure | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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