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...conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom, doubled over and grimacing at the excruciating effort of relieving himself - well, the audience feels his pain.) Duncan, in his breakout role (after several supporting roles in films like Armageddon), succeeds in winning over the sympathies of the audience with an inspiring performance. John Coffey is a walking paradox - his monstrous frame is capable of flattening a man, and yet he is afraid of the dark. Using his imposing physical presence, Duncan illustrates this juxtaposition while communicating the integrity that...

Author: By By RICHARD Ho, | Title: A Man, a Mouse, a Mile, Panama | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...certain religious sects will no doubt find it puzzling, if not downright disappointing, that the new year didn't begin with a spectacular slapdown between the Antichrist and Godzilla. Of course, preachers can always say the Creator called them on their cell phones at 11:59 p.m. to say Armageddon was being postponed.The media may have a harder time explaining why they were so relentlessly hormonal about a year just because it had three zeroes in it. But the media usually just shrug and move briskly on to the next installment of the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Doctor Y2K | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Jerusalem's police have bigger things to worry about than the Y2K bug - the Holy City's gendarmes are concerned about their precinct playing ground zero in some attempt to hasten a New Year's Eve Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem's Cops Play Apocalypse Busters | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...Aqsa and the neighboring Dome of the Rock. Now, Israeli authorities fear a millennial convergence between the messianic visions of some evangelical Christian groups and those Jewish extremists. "Israeli police are most worried about Christian end-timers who believe that before Christ can return there has to be Armageddon," says Beyer. "Their intelligence suggests that some groups want to hasten the apocalypse by blowing up the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount in the hope that this would provoke a holy war between Muslims and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem's Cops Play Apocalypse Busters | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...that number is $206,000. Republican freshmen, likewise, had banked an average of $109,000; this year, it?s $203,000. "We're raising record numbers, they're raising record numbers," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who heads the House Republicans? campaign arm. "It's Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Noise? It's the Jingling of Warchests | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

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