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You almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, he'd start talking like Bill Cosby on 'Picture Pages.' Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and cliche...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

"I guess I'll remember it as more of a character building thing than I probably would've says after my first two years. I think everyone always talks about the things you learn from team sports--discipline, balancing your time, teamwork, working with groups. But I think one of...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rich Linden | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

If the nanotech guys are right, a call to the family doctor a few decades from now could yield a high-tech variation on an old cliche: "Take two teaspoons of diagnostic sensors, and call me in the morning."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Environment: ...And Will They Go Inside Us? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Personally, though, I think that a good deal of "The X-Files" attraction can be attributed to the show's avante garde flair. It's got the same kind of cheesy camp as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," evidenced by the weekly tagline, "The Truth is Out There," and the...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: X-Static! | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

We knew there would be a "yuck!" reaction to Bill Clinton this election season. We just didn't know exactly what it would be. After all, as the cliche goes, every election is a reaction to the previous President--and that goes double when the guy has problems defining the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Authenticity | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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