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...Tower of Babel that is the casting means that the French King Louis and his brother both sound like mall rats from Anywheresville, U.S.A. D'Artagnan has an Irish brogue, and Aramis sounds prissily British. The language barrier is handled by giving the French actors either underwritten (Christine, Queen Anne) or buffoonish parts (Porthos). Depardieu does well enough with his one-dimensional role, chasing after the ladies and attempting to hang himself while naked in one of the funniest scenes in the movie. Parillaud, as Queen Anne, does passably well. Godreche, however, seems to have decided that she could just...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mask' Offers Cliched Tale of Vacationing Cast | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...impression is that the probability of science and non-science majors accepted is roughly the same and is therefore not a statistical barrier," he says. "We do like to look for breadth of curriculum and for some form of liberal arts education, usually provided by some form of core program...

Author: By Anne Y.lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PRE-MED, HUH? | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...attempt to convince me to stop, my aunt raised thousands of safety concerns, most of them completely unreasonable. Yet, I won't deny that some of her concerns had crossed my mind. Is there a physical barrier between the tutor and student? Will I be tutoring a murderer? Is it safe in the prison? What if the prisoner attempts to find me when he's released...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Behind Prison Walls | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

Reading "Beyond The Sound Barrier" about the new Miss America, Heather Whitestone, and the controversy in the deaf community over her choice to speak rather than use American Sign Language brought to mind a similar uproar. It occurred when I spoke rather than signed at the 1988 Academy Awards while presenting the Oscar for Best Actor. I was labeled "offensive" by the deaf community, and my family and I endured years of mean-spirited criticism. My response to those who disapprove of Whitestone's choice is that all of us have dreams to fulfill and each one of us takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...virus might eventually cause problems for humans. In an earlier study, conducted with great discretion, his lab had found that residents of rural Hong Kong had antibodies to all the known bird-flu viruses. What that suggested, says Shortridge, was that "any virus could cross the species barrier to humans. But whether it could set up an infection, be established as an infection and maintained as an infection is, of course, another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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