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...want to leave misery in the 'burbs? "Family Man" is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its "Wonderful Life" portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...wants to continue to buttress financial aid for graduate students, to ease the burden for starving scholars...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Endowment, Allston on GSAS Dean's Mind | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...calculus before a season that since they can't win with a payroll of $45 million, they should just pare it down to $15 million and take their chances. It forces every team in the league to compete. And if your market is too small to meet this burden, then it is time to either fold up shop or move...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 'V' Spot: Thank You, A-Rod | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

...used to be only the educated people who left, the people who wouldn't be a burden to society," Argaw says. " But when these people came, they had no education, they had never been to school. They came here and it was a culture shock...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Dilemma: Move up? Move out? | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...network that pays you to argue with Greta Van Susteren in a fake courtroom on "Burden of Proof" is not paying you to be responsible. They're paying you for answers, now: If the answers are correct, that's gravy, but if you throw in a few ass-covering caveats, nobody'll remember in the morning. He finally came up with the general impression that the case was being overturned and sent back to Florida, where recounts might or might not resume, but - that classic hedge of Postelection 2000 - "this isn't over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Short Memory of TV Pundits | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

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