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...lack of a good story, worthy characters or beautiful writing? Of course not. Within the pages of "children's literature" you can find humor, adventure, philosophy and romance, all elegantly expressed. The sole difference is the age of the protagonist. Perhaps the success of the Harry Potter series will awaken many to the treasures to be found on the shelves in the children's section. DIANE MASLA Gainesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...video," Walker told TIME. "Sean has a strong spiritual sense and a lot of faith, and I told him there were things that could damage him with the church." What's more, says Walker, "Sean is working on gospel-rap songs for his next album. He wants to awaken the spiritual side in hip-hop." Rap music and church doctrines coexist uneasily, and Combs realized that the crucifixion scene could harm his album by offending the audience he was trying to capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Puff Daddy: In the Eye of a Storm | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...know in the years to come my assessment of my professional life will come more into focus and I will awaken many nights with Radcliffe on my mind," Wilson said. "But I know at this point that the most important thing is that Radcliffe is a strong institution...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilson, Rudenstine Reassure Alumnae | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...comic masks" from the faces of others and to "reveal all their trappings as mere disguises." For Henry, life is a play and we are all characters--characters that we create, both for others and for ourselves. As Henry sees it, the job of a madman is to awaken us to this fact, to "shake what you have painstakingly constructed within yourself...down to the very foundations." Yet even in his false madness, Henry is a deeply pathetic figure who is fully aware that the last 20 years of his life have been wasted...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oh, Henry! Allusions of Grandeur | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...comic masks" from the faces of others and to "reveal all their trappings as mere disguises." For Henry, life is a play and we are all characters--characters that we create, both for others and for ourselves. As Henry sees it, the job of a madman is to awaken us to this fact, to "shake what you have painstakingly constructed within yourself...down to the very foundations." Yet even in his false madness, Henry is a deeply pathetic figure who is fully aware that the last 20 years of his life have been wasted...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oh, Henry! allusions of grandeur | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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