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Dates: during 2000-2009
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In Spread, there is a scene where you talk about getting bonus points for preparing a meal for your girlfriend. Is there anything you do for Demi to score points? -Tara Matthews, Boardman, Ohio There are definitely things, but the character in the movie and I have different motivations. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ashton Kutcher | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

Impersonal, bureaucratic, and practical—these have been key words involved in defining Chinese Character for a long time. Parents invest suicidal amounts of energy and money in creating a super-child who will make the bar and beat the odds. And there is nothing more expensive than space...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia | Title: Metaphors | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

This attitude is reminiscent of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s character Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, whose lover wants her to visit Palermo. He asks how she can possibly live without seeing it, to which Sabina responds, “I have seen Palermo. A friend...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Façade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

My mentor teacher and I taught Othello to our Prep for AP English class and, in my rereading of the tragedy, I found one character who struck me as unmistakably familiar. This one character has knowledge, power, and smarts, knows when to show sympathy, or when to march up indignation...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: We Who Never Set a Squadron in the Field | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

Few people would have pegged Marie-Laure Picat as a likely heroine. The portly, plain-looking 37-year-old lived quietly in a village in central France, shunned attention, and said her only real quirk was an adoration of the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. But on Aug. 10, when it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Mourns the Death of 'Mother Courage' | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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