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...course, in America, the past is always waiting in the wings. It's like that old boyfriend or girlfriend who won't go away. On Broadway now, you can see The Producers and The Graduate. (It used to be that only film stars returned to theater on the Great White Way; now entire films do.) Playing on the silver screen are remakes of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and the old TV mini-series The Bourne Identity. Our President is a revival of sorts, at least genetically. Come to think of it, the whole concept of remixing is a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Live the King | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...us—a fact she relayed to us over a month after we’d agreed to rent the apartment from her. Then, at the end of those nine days when she was to head to New York and spend the rest of the summer with her boyfriend, he dumped her. Without any other place to stay, she informed us that she’d be taking back half of the room for the rest of the summer...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, | Title: Tales From the Sublet Jungle | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...Danan's story had a happy ending?almost. She escaped from her mama-san a year and a half ago with the help of a Filipino priest. Last June, she returned to Korea hoping to marry her G.I. boyfriend, only to face another bitter disappointment. He beat her, she says, and almost smothered her with a pillow. So she went back to the shelter run by the Filipino priest. Downrange, some of the soldiers say they have heard stories like that. But a lot of guys are just young and lonely and looking for a woman to drink a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Base Instincts | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...argument from Zhou Yuanyuan as she scrambles up one of the steeper reaches of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing during a recent weekend. Decked out in $80 hiking boots and combat fatigues, Zhou and her boyfriend, co-owners of a real estate company, have turned to physically challenging day trips to stay fit. "Our business has been good, but our stress levels are high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Sweatshops | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

Boomers also face a new concern these days when they start to date again. "AIDS and HIV are something you have to think about," Brothers notes. When Salners, for example, began seeing her boyfriend, they were both tested for hiv. "This is something that I never thought I would experience," she says, "but you have to be careful and smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Back Into It | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

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