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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tormenting the object of his affection. The other is that his rationale for bad behavior--that he's building the boy's "character"--is not entirely wrong. In the end, Katadreuffe is strong, though at what cost in future psychiatric bills the movie wisely does not say. It is content to offer us only this bleak, useful thought: life's problems are not all small stuff, and we do need to sweat them. It helps us get rid of our baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Power Of Character | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Along with the recent advances in digital switching and storage technologies, this means a future in which all forms of content--movies, music, shows, books, data, magazines, newspapers, your aunt's recipes and home videos--will be instantly available anywhere on demand. Anyone will be able to be a producer of any content; you'll be able to create a movie or magazine, make it available to the world and charge for it, just like Time Warner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Century...And The Next One | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today...And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Of The Century's Greatest Speeches | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...recent years, however, King's most quoted line--"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"--has been put to uses he would never have endorsed. It has become the slogan for opponents of affirmative action like California's Ward Connerly, who insist, incredibly, that had King lived he would have been marching alongside them. Connerly even chose King's birthday last year to announce the creation of his nationwide crusade against "racial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Luther King | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...become ingrained in American minds and society ("Mr. President, was there a relationship?" "There is no relationship." "Yeah, but was there a relationship?" "There is no relationship"). So, despite the obvious inadequacies of the vague terms, those students fortunate enough to be "hooking up" will have to be content to call it...what-ever they want...

Author: By Brian J. Norton, | Title: the truth about HOOKING UP | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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