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...track, freshman Alasdair McLean-Foreman was the brightest spot of Indoor Heps for the Crimson, winning the 800-meter run. He will look for a repeat performance. Sophomores Chris Antunes and John Traugott have both stepped up their performances in recent weeks...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Gears Up for Heps | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Once upon a time, the Hong Kong film industry was one of the busiest and brightest spots for cinema in the world, second only to Hollywood. However, Hong Kong film output has decreased dramatically in recent years along with declining box office receipts due to factors such as the Asian economic recession, rampant piracy and concern over the island’s new relationship with the Mainland. Megastars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat have abandoned ship and washed ashore in America, leaving a smaller pool of talent to cope with an ever-growing crisis. Hollywood movies have overtaken...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cruising The 'Skyline' In Style | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...course, this is why pencils have erasers and operating systems have betas. Microsoft promises to make XP compatible with any device you can imagine by launch day. Then again, the brightest lights in Redmond couldn't fix my problems over two days of lengthy conference calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Works in Progress | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...never wrote the book, but others have examined those dark three days of April 196l and the chain of ignorance sustained by arrogance is plain to see. The best and brightest can be pretty dumb when self-adoration takes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson John Kennedy Learned From the Bay of Pigs | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...someone who has been, variously, described as “a poet of immense promise and unforgettable delivery” (Brodsky), and “England’s brightest new poet for a decade” (Peter Forbes in Poetry Review), Glyn Maxwell is curiously unknown in the U.S. I had attributed this to the same sort of infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most...

Author: By Hannah Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breaking Into the State: British Poet Glyn Maxwell Visits Houghton | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

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