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...Nonzee was the producer's first choice after the success of Nang Nak. Jan Dara, the curious but ultimately doomed main character (played by Thai TV actor Eakarat Sarsukh), is abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown out of the family home for supposedly trying to rape his stepsister. Nonzee's movie concentrates on Jan Dara's return to the house as a young adult to exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride & Passion | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Clinton actually showed restraint with the pardons by not giving one to Michael Milken, Jonathan Pollard, Webb Hubbell and Ol' Dirty Bastard. And, if he had wanted, he could have fought to pardon himself. And that's the greatest pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling His Pain, Taking His M&M's | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...compatible you are with everyone else on a scale from one to 100; these percentages seem to be completely capricious, but provide for endless entertainment. And when the excitement dies down a bit, there are plenty of other tests to take: the Purity Test, the Sex Test, the Bastard Test, etc. These come in varying degrees of raciness: one part of the Bitch test wants to know "if you were working on a pirate ship, would you most likely be the captain, the first mate, the buccaneer, or pregnant...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Taking the (Web) Test | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

...Dirty Bastard apprehended in a Philly McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In... | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...America lags behind the rest of the world in developing high-speed trains. The explanation lies in Washington's lack of a balanced transportation policy. Europe and Japan place intercity rail on an even playing field with other transportation modes for federal assistance. Washington, however, treats Amtrak like a bastard child that receives billions in "subsidies" while aviation and highways receive blessed federal "investment." Amtrak needs the same financial commitment enjoyed by the airlines and highways. DONALD SHAW Bloomfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 25, 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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