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...leader of the group, Becca Lowenhaupt '99, gives what may be the play's most brilliant performance in her side-splittingly funny portrayal of Bottom, the headstrong and histrionic weaver who accidentally becomes ensnared in the web of fairy magic permeating the forest and winds up with the infamous ass's head...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: A Luminous Open-Air Performance of One of the Greatest Comedies of All | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...When Charles Wang lifted the lid on his system at Computer Associates, corporate paranoia gushed out in torrents as employees blanketed the company with CCs. No decision was too small, no change too minor not to notify everyone remotely involved. "It had turned into the biggest cover-your-ass thing you could imagine," says Wang. "People would send these things just so they could say, 'But I copied you on that.'" Now companies such as SmithKline Beecham are tightening the spigot by encouraging employees to limit the number of CCs they send. At Ernst & Young, systemwide messages (to everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOST IN THE E-MAIL | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...back story is that this President served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after a crash. "At last," went one of the film's proposed (and rejected) advertising slogans, "America has a kick-ass President." The ways in which real Presidents respond to terrorism, launch surgical strikes and the like will no doubt seem effete by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACTING PRESIDENTS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...Joel, my work wasn't about acting. It was a modeling experience; he wanted to ritually sell an image. Once I realized that this movie was going to be a two-hour ad for the toys, that nothing I did mattered, I wasn't a pain in the ass." He says it was his choice to drop out of the series and that Schumacher offered him the lead role in his next film, A Time to Kill, which made a star of Matthew McConaughey. "Joel thought my turning it down was a reflection on him, which it wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A SAINT GOES MARCHING ON | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Last Month "Citizens for a Fag Free KSG" e-mailed four fellow Kennedy School of Government students "Fuck your First Amendment. Stop crying faggot! Go fuck yourselves up the ass!" Later, they threatened in a separate memo "the niggers, chinks and spics are next...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Throwing Off the Veil of Political Correctness | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

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