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...pleased that one of our brightest young professors will be on leave to work in the Administration," Nye said in a press release...

Author: By Zachary Z Norman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor To Be African Advisor | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Sports rise on their personalities, as the NBA did on the wings of Bird, Magic and Michael in the '80s and '90s, and NASCAR on Sunday lost its brightest star. But new levels of popularity (and demographic profitability) are not built on 49-year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Crying Over Dale Earnhardt Now... | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Harvard hopes to change that. Although the team lacks the marquee player it once had in Wyant, co-captains Deepak Abraham and Shondip Ghosh lead a very deep and talented Crimson squad. Among the brightest stories this year has been that of junior Pete Karlen...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Squash To Take On Killer P's | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

Forrester (Connery) is a one-book novelist, fallen into an endless Salingeresque funk. From the window of his Bronx apartment, he watches black kids playing basketball in a vastly changed neighborhood. The best and brightest of them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...brightest porch light on the block. Get over it. I frankly don't expect much from him; neither do you; and that's the best thing he has going for him. If he so much as clears a matchbox, we'll all fall back in wonder. Think how pleasantly surprised we're going to be when we discover George W. is, as he has been all his life, sort of adequate. Not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, We'll Survive | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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