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...computer and bangs out a one-page book report on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. After half an hour of work, Molly takes the paper upstairs and gives it to her mother Libby for proofreading. As Molly nibbles a snack of a bagel and orange-spice tea, Mom jots some corrections. "Why don't you say, 'This is the best book I ever read,'" Libby suggests. "Teachers really like strong opinions like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Celebrity is different from Allen's previous works in other ways, too. Celebrity is certainly his most gentile film to date. The word "bagel" is uttered only once. The only scene with rabbis in it features the yarmukled men trapped in a room with a group of teenage skin-heads. Most of the film is shot in locations besides those that are usually featured in Allen's stories; now characters are uprooted, on the streets, at parties, in movies, and so forth...

Author: By Lauren M. Mechling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely plugged one into the other, cream-cheesed the waiting bagel and came up with a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: Software Strongman | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...closer one gets to Cambridge, the harder it is to escape bagel chains and venues of cashmere sweater sets. Stereo Jacks is a slight hike down Mass Ave from Porter, but the CD, record and tape collection is a refreshing change from the hum-drum top-40 adult contemporary hits of Tower records and even the ultra-trendy underground of In Your Ear. Jack Woker, the proud founder of this establishment, has been providing eccentric music-listeners with old favorites like "Fabulous Harmonica played by the Yama Yama Man" and "Serenades for Sex Kittens." In particular, the shop specializes...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: on the T again OUTWARD BOUND | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...have a good core of players who know what it's like and won't rattle," said senior goalkeeper Meredith Bagel. "Our experience will help us a lot there...

Author: By Haley Steele, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Not Looking Past Central Conn. St. | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

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